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From: Michael Glaesemann <[email protected]>
To: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: On-line docs for PG 8.1 need updating
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:03:48 +0900
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On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:46 , Neil Conway wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-06-11 at 22:37 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> That's intentional, it's scheduled to go up along with the press  
>> release
>> and related info once the release is done.
>
> What is the reasoning for this? IMHO for future releases it would be a
> better idea to make the beta documentation a part of the main  
> website's
> list of documentation at about the same time the first beta is  
> released.
> That would make the documentation easier to find and would also
> encourage more people to use the beta.

I agree with your points. One reservation I have is that people might  
be more likely to run a beta in a production environment. Nowadays it  
seems increasingly common for projects to release betas for  
widespread circulation. I don't know if this is something that should  
be encouraged for PostgreSQL. I'd hate to see people get a bad  
impression of PostgreSQL because a beta screws up their data. Putting  
it on the top page might lend it more credibility and lead people to  
trust it in environments they shouldn't--even though PostgreSQL  
hackers are very clear that beta should not be used in production.

I'd guess these things are better discussed on -advocacy.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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