* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [080409 10:40]:
> This doesn't seem particularly hard, just a matter of following the
> relevant mailing lists (mostly -patches, but various offenders send
> patches elsewhere) and adding links to the current wiki page.
I've often been confused that discussion seem to seamlessly be on either
-patches, or -hackers. From the understanding I got on the mailing
list pages (http://archives.postgresql.org/), it seems like -patches is
supposed to be only for patches, and -hackers for the general
discussion, issues, features, etc on anything development related.
But from observation, it seems like -patches and -hackers are different
lists of the same thing, except that -patches has a much bigger message
size limit.
Is that the intended operational status?
If not, would it be possible to some how force reply-to of pg-patches to
-hackers? I know, that blows chunks with the usual mailling-list
reply-to issues, but it would make -hackers the single place to follow
discussions, and maybe make -patches a more pointed "list of things to
track".
Tracking 2 lists really isn't a big deal - I'm guessing most others dump
both -patches and -hackers into the same mailbox anyways too, but it
does seem like the 2 lists are a needless split as they currently are
used.
a.
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