From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200805072013.m47KDjd05152@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists
In-Reply-To: <20080507195254.GD15867@fetter.org>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:13:45 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Matthew T. O'connor" <matthew@zeut.net>,
	Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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David Fetter wrote:
> 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 :)

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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