Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:52:54 -0700
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Matthew T. O'connor" <matthew@zeut.net>,
	Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
	Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists
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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
> > Patches are an integral part of the conversation about
> > development, I think trying to split them up is awkward at best.
> > Do people really still think that the potential for larger
> > messages is really a problem?  
> 
> Personally I'd be fine with abandoning -patches and just using
> -hackers.  We could try it for awhile, anyway, and go back if it
> seems worse.

This would make it a little tougher on me as far as maintaining the
patches section of the PostgreSQL Weekly News, but I'll deal with it
if I need to :)

Cheers,
David.
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