Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DE2197AB87 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:11:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RrvhR-0004y6-Ib for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:11:31 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RrvhE-0004zB-4C; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:11:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:11:16 -0500 From: Bruce Momjian To: Magnus Hagander Cc: Josh Berkus , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Planet posting policy Message-ID: <20120130181116.GD24817@momjian.us> References: <96e5156e36277877d18484a5148ad516@biglumber.com> <4F26DA5D.7040808@agliodbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201201/81 X-Sequence-Number: 20479 On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 18:58, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > >> I think that blog post itself is a very good example of content we > >> *don't* necessarily want on planet. > > > > See, while for me it's exactly the kind of post I think *should* be > > included.  Because I'm a working consultant, I'm interested in what the > > various commercial forks can do for my customers, and as a PostgreSQL > > hacker I'm interested in what the various commercial tools tell us about > > our users.  As long as it's not press releases. > > Did you read the example? It *was* basically a press release... > > > > I don't think it's going to be possible to have one feed which pleases > > everyone.  Maybe we should have two feeds?  /oss and /universe ? > > Sure, we could probably find a way to do that, but is the demand > really high enough to make it worth it? I think the big question is whether our announce list is sufficient (which allows commercial postings) or whether there is stuff that doesn't fit on announce that should be on our blog. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +