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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:37:42 -0600
From: "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex@gmail.com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists
Cc: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Alex Hunsaker wrote:

>  > Plus it seems awkward to move a discussion thats taking place on
>  > -hackers over to patches... Granted I could post to patches first,
>  > wait an hour then send an email to hackers/reviewer and say hey!
>  > updated patch here!  But it hardly seems worth it to me...  In fact I
>  > would argue -patches should go away so we dont have that split.
>
>  The goal is for the patches list to just discuss patches, but often
>  there are user API issues that come up after the patch is submitted, and
>  people often want that discussion on hackers.  The current email split
>  can certainly be awkward.
>

A big part of my problem with the split is if there is a discussion
taking place on -hackers I want to be able to reply to the discussion
and say "well, here is what I was thinking".  Sending it to -patches
first waiting for it to hit the archive so I can link to it in my
reply on -hackers seems pointless and convoluted.

But if thats what you want, thats what ill try to do from now on :)

For instance the patch Tom reviewed of mine yesterday only -hackers
was copied, so I maintained that but also added -patches because I was
sending in a patch...

I think It will be an ongoing problem though especially for new people
as they probably wont understand the "logical" split...