Re: Need writer for May releases

Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 04 May 2017, at 08:23, Stephen Frost <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Daniel, Noah,
> 
> * Noah Misch ([email protected]) wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:26:26PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> On 29 Apr 2017, at 09:20, Noah Misch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We need someone to draft an announcement and web site updates for the
>>>> back-branch releases to be announced 2017-05-11.  Final release notes become
>>>> available on 2017-05-08, so you'll need time on 2017-05-08 or 2017-05-09 to
>>>> finish the draft.
>>> 
>>> I volnteer to take care of this one.
>> 
>> Thanks; please do.  How familiar are you with the process?  I'm not very
>> familiar.  Essentially, you read the release notes, extract a subset, and
>> assemble an announcement in the style of recent announcements.  I don't know
>> anything about the process for posting the announcement to the web site and to
>> pgsql-announce@.  I suspect others on this list can answer any questions.
> 
> I know at least enough about the process to, hopefully, be helpful if
> you have any questions regarding it.

Excellent, thanks!  I re-read the thread about a previous release announcement
(started at [email protected]) and the wiki
page https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/UpdateReleaseDrafting which was helpful.

> I'll pull the info from redmine too and pass that on to Daniel, so he
> understands the general process and timeline.

Thanks!

cheers ./daniel

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