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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Planet posting policy
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:42:37 +0000
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 18:58, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> 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.

-announce is for press-release type stuff, which we definitely do not
want on Planet. Similarly, we wouldn't want technical write ups on
-announce.

-- 
Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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