Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:17 PM, John R Pierce  wrote:
> On 07/20/11 12:04 PM, Vick Khera wrote:
>>
>> And describe*what*  the product does.  Not everyone knows what a
>> product is by its name, especially when the name is some marketing
>> term and not descriptive.
>
> I love seeing literature and websites for product XYZ that make it sound
> like it mills the wheat, bakes the bread, AND butters the toast, without
> EVER saying anything about what the product actually consists of or does,
> and all the actual technical info is behind a support paywall.

You know, I'd post a joke here about announcing PG Farm And Kitchen
(TM) 8.7.0 (Now including a Kitchen Sink!) but last time I made a joke
on a mailing list people were asking me seriously about it years
later.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers

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Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-20 Thread John R Pierce

On 07/20/11 12:04 PM, Vick Khera wrote:

And describe*what*  the product does.  Not everyone knows what a
product is by its name, especially when the name is some marketing
term and not descriptive.


I love seeing literature and websites for product XYZ that make it sound 
like it mills the wheat, bakes the bread, AND butters the toast, without 
EVER saying anything about what the product actually consists of or 
does, and all the actual technical info is behind a support paywall.



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Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-20 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Scott Ribe
 wrote:
> My suggestion: all such announcements should include information about 
> supported platforms. Any announcement submitted without that info should be 
> rejected, and the vendor instructed to add it before re-submission.
>

And describe *what* the product does.  Not everyone knows what a
product is by its name, especially when the name is some marketing
term and not descriptive.

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Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-19 Thread Greg Smith

On 07/19/2011 09:00 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

We have the same problem with people posting to pgsql-jobs where they
don't mention the location of the job.  I usually email the people
privately about this.
   


Used to have.  pgsql-jobs is now moderated because the junk posts were 
starting to outnumber the real ones.  I just ejected an off-topic J2EE 
job posting earlier today that would have made it through until this 
recent change.  Jobs that are too vague on details to be useful should 
get similarly bounced back to the poster, to be reworked before they'll 
be accepted.


It's impractical to do the same thing for something as complicated as 
platform support, at least using negative reinforcement, on the more 
controversial and popular announce list.  The list of rules at 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval is already too big 
for moderators to be expected to enforce them all correctly in every 
case; adding more isn't likely to do anything useful.  The best I think 
we could do here is update that page to encourage people to list this 
information for their own benefit, and then have some regular announcers 
lead by example, by including the sort of info Scott is asking for into 
their messages.


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Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> On Tuesday 19. July 2011 18.44.46 Scott Ribe wrote:
> > I'm not sure to whom this specifically should be addressed, but something
> > that's been bugging me for a while: announcements like this morning's
> > "AnySQL Maestro 11.7 released", where the announcement mentions nothing
> > about platform support. And it's not just the lack of that info in
> > announcements; on many web sites you have to dig for a while to find info
> > about platform support, and I do not enjoy finding what looks like a nice
> > tool, only to have to spend 5-10 minutes to figure out that it is Windows
> > only.
> > 
> > My suggestion: all such announcements should include information about
> > supported platforms. Any announcement submitted without that info should
> > be rejected, and the vendor instructed to add it before re-submission.
> 
> I totally agree. In particular, Windows users seems to think that everybody 
> else is using their platform, much as right-handers seem to unconsciously 
> deny 
> the existence of left-handers.
> 
> The corollary being that if the announcement doesn't explicitly say 
> otherwise, 
> you can assume with about 99% confidence that the touted product is Windoze 
> only.

We have the same problem with people posting to pgsql-jobs where they
don't mention the location of the job.  I usually email the people
privately about this.

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Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-19 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
On Tuesday 19. July 2011 18.44.46 Scott Ribe wrote:
> I'm not sure to whom this specifically should be addressed, but something
> that's been bugging me for a while: announcements like this morning's
> "AnySQL Maestro 11.7 released", where the announcement mentions nothing
> about platform support. And it's not just the lack of that info in
> announcements; on many web sites you have to dig for a while to find info
> about platform support, and I do not enjoy finding what looks like a nice
> tool, only to have to spend 5-10 minutes to figure out that it is Windows
> only.
> 
> My suggestion: all such announcements should include information about
> supported platforms. Any announcement submitted without that info should
> be rejected, and the vendor instructed to add it before re-submission.

I totally agree. In particular, Windows users seems to think that everybody 
else is using their platform, much as right-handers seem to unconsciously deny 
the existence of left-handers.

The corollary being that if the announcement doesn't explicitly say otherwise, 
you can assume with about 99% confidence that the touted product is Windoze 
only.

regards, Leif

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[GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-19 Thread Scott Ribe
I'm not sure to whom this specifically should be addressed, but something 
that's been bugging me for a while: announcements like this morning's "AnySQL 
Maestro 11.7 released", where the announcement mentions nothing about platform 
support. And it's not just the lack of that info in announcements; on many web 
sites you have to dig for a while to find info about platform support, and I do 
not enjoy finding what looks like a nice tool, only to have to spend 5-10 
minutes to figure out that it is Windows only.

My suggestion: all such announcements should include information about 
supported platforms. Any announcement submitted without that info should be 
rejected, and the vendor instructed to add it before re-submission.

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