Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6399A2E003B for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:09:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80559-08 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:09:31 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25D62E002C for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:09:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m2OJ9RX08326; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:09:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200803241909.m2OJ9RX08326@momjian.us> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] New email list for emergency communications In-Reply-To: <47E7F825.9020902@kaltenbrunner.cc> To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:09:27 -0400 (EDT) CC: Andrew Sullivan , PostgreSQL-development X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/886 X-Sequence-Number: 115687 Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: [ Discussion about making infrastructure downtime more visible to people.] > > Right now, when email is down, I just start IM'ing people. A more > > structured system would help me. > > Some people would say a more structured approach to patch/bug tracking > would help them (but maybe not help you) ;-) [ Email moved to hackers.] This is an interesting observation that deserves to be discussed separately, and relates to the patch queue. Many people want to know what is happening with the patch queue but having better reporting doesn't seem to help much the people who are actually processing the queue, and requires more work. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +