Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A242E0054 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 13:21:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46459-03 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 13:21:15 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.190]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9FA2E0042 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 13:21:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y8so147605tia.5 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 09:21:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=5IX+xXm6k/0jtlQBMN1//8P9D2TxkHTK+b3YiOZctt8=; b=YRaHF94jO+7pwPSzaUS1xmPodcqPMg3EqgB8W09hXT3IJGcSVujQmV4u3weZyDY9Enptp3tmY1xu66fZZEBZrymAx9ZSvcAgyV4moWUBzJBZ9K1PE3qu4XvNKEMyHTADU59ddW3Vvc748mFX7wkRkKNuhC+cvORuutsBY/lNkd4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CtUSyzzF1x0NMkB63gnUWEOwnuOpM3M29sJTCzIFoW8AYXPxQZCmMgCwBxBAGfYMNOd6x039+ZBXyjZr3MpVLPjHVrr8/jTRdk3NDwO+jMezKyLGkppVwo2zSXRPX11jha1VTiRaHfYSl4bM6nA3QMQO0hJtDoNdRyQH/gF5vv0= Received: by 10.110.46.3 with SMTP id t3mr212709tit.33.1210177273884; Wed, 07 May 2008 09:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.110.21.8 with HTTP; Wed, 7 May 2008 09:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37ed240d0805070921o3c973e09v80cc1855be23aaa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 02:21:13 +1000 From: "Brendan Jurd" To: "Matthew T. O'connor" Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists Cc: "Alex Hunsaker" , "Bruce Momjian" , "Tom Lane" , PostgreSQL-development In-Reply-To: <4821D0A0.8040305@zeut.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <34d269d40805070752g4d578a1fu6acb00fd8e5f774e@mail.gmail.com> <200805071503.m47F3xi10638@momjian.us> <34d269d40805070837q19f1144eu8c316fa1cf6d8780@mail.gmail.com> <4821D0A0.8040305@zeut.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200805/181 X-Sequence-Number: 118180 On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Matthew T. O'connor wrote: > > Patches are an integral part of the conversation about development, I'd go further than that. Patches ARE conversation about development, they are just in C rather than English. Having one list for the parts of the conversation that are written in C and another for the parts that are in English is bizarre, in my opinion. Especially since you almost always want to accompany your C code with some English commentary. Cheers, BJ