Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C506F1337BDA; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:01:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13588-03; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:01:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from cooker.cnx.rice.edu (cooker.cnx.rice.edu [168.7.5.70]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF79E1337BE5; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:01:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from reedstrm by cooker.cnx.rice.edu with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pwfg2-0002rh-0B; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:01:06 -0600 Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:01:05 -0600 From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" To: Alvaro Herrera Cc: Tom Lane , Thom Brown , David Fetter , Robert Haas , pgsql-docs , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Sync rep doc corrections Message-ID: <20110307190105.GB21734@rice.edu> References: <20110307175106.GA12122@fetter.org> <9160.1299521791@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1299523373-sup-3966@alvh.no-ip.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1299523373-sup-3966@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/27 X-Sequence-Number: 6460 On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:45:17PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun mar 07 15:16:31 -0300 2011: > > > If we do that then it becomes worth wondering what the -docs list is for > > at all. Maybe we *should* get rid of it; I dunno. I see your point > > about how the factual issues involved in a docs change ought to be > > vetted on -hackers, but on the other hand the traffic on -hackers is so > > high already that I'm not happy about folding another list with a > > reasonably distinct charter into it. > > Searching for doc changes/suggestions is helped tremendously by having > them in a separate list. -1 for merging it with -hackers. I have no > opinion on the -hackers crossposting issue as it doesn't affect me at > all. Definitely don't merge. Crossposting, I think, should be reserved for significant factual changes to docs of features that are in current development, like ... syncrep. :-) Basically, keep docs work on docs, but cross-post to hackers when a cross-check is needed. Don't routinely crosspost, lest that train hackers to ignore the docs posts. After all, we insist that developers of patches submit docs: correct documentation is a valid concern for all developers. Ross P.S. Everyone is aware of the settings for majordomo, so you only get one of any crosspost, right? -- Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reedstrm@rice.edu Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166 Connexions http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665 Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005 GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE