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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew T. O'connor <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Hunsaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Jurd <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:13:45 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Matthew T. O'connor" <[email protected]> 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 :)

Yes, it is going to make scooping patches from the mailing list harder,
but the existing split seems to be causing more widespread problems that
are harder to ajust.

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        http://momjian.us
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