Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-20 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com 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: [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

Re: [GENERAL] announcements regarding tools

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:17 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com 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

[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;

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

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

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