Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990BA420B3A for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:05:12 -0400 (AST) Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RsiIf-0002cf-45 for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:05:12 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RsiIO-00023Z-Mp; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:04:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 17:04:52 -0500 From: Bruce Momjian To: "Joshua D. Drake" Cc: Magnus Hagander , Dave Page , Josh Berkus , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Planet posting policy Message-ID: <20120201220452.GA5191@momjian.us> References: <96e5156e36277877d18484a5148ad516@biglumber.com> <4F26DA5D.7040808@agliodbs.com> <4F297F6C.7050007@commandprompt.com> <4F298AEB.1090402@commandprompt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F298AEB.1090402@commandprompt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201202/10 X-Sequence-Number: 20493 On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:56:43AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 02/01/2012 10:22 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > >The reasonable tihng would be to announce the poll on *planet*. That > >would make it reach exactly the people we want, which is, those who > >read planet. > > I would agree this would be a reasonable sample but I would not > agree that it is as reasonable as it could be (how to solve it, I > don't know). > > > > > >>The question to me really boils down to, do we want to relax the rules in an > >>order to increase readership and the value (intellectual) of the content. > > > >No, it also boils down to if relaxing the rule *does* increase > >readership (probably, but *far* from certain) and the value (much more > >in debate, I'd say) of planet. > > > > I am not sure how much debate there really is except from a > puritanical sense that doesn't really add to the value of the > content. It is directly appropriate to read about vPostgres and all > its goodness on planet (same as Advanced server, IMO). If I was sure that commercial content would be posted with the same regularity and motivation as our current content, I would be fine, but knowing companies, I doubt that is true. I can imagine company X saying, "Oh, we have a new product coming out --- we need a blog campaign around that." I am afraid that isn't going to be pretty. Now, as a counter example, I just looked at the EnterpriseDB blog and saw what they blogged about the cloud product they just released: http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/ There are only two blog entries, and the rest are PG community ones from me, so I guess if they aren't totally spamming their own company-controlled blog, they might not do too much harm on Planet Postgres. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +