On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:33:43AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > Two things to fix this, and several other problems:
>
> > 1. Remove the messages size limits on -hackers. They serve no
> > useful purpose, and they interfere with our development process.
>
> Agreed, or at least boost it up a good bit more.
>
> > If -hackers isn't already subscriber-only, now would be the time
> > to make it so.
>
> Not sure how that's relevant?
Spam and wackiness. Consider what Dmitry Turin would do with an
unlimited ability to send his "specs" to -hackers.
> > 2. Start using more git, as many hackers and committers have
> > already started to do. This is the kind of situation where CVS
> > just plain falls down because branching and merging are
> > unmanageably difficult in it, where in git, they're
> > many-times-a-day operations.
>
> This is a red herring, unless your proposal also includes making the
> master CVS^H^H^Hgit repository world-writable. The complaint I have
> about people posting URLs is that there's no stable archive of what
> the patches really were, and just because it came out of someone's
> local git repository doesn't help that.
The master repository need not be world-writeable, but as many public
ones as needed for development should be. I'd love for people to use
our infrastructure, but github, etc., would also work.
Cheers,
David.
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