Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
> On 7 March 2011 23:21, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
>> As I'm putting together the patches section for the PostgreSQL Weekly
>> News, it helps me *enormously* to have only one list I need to check,
>> so at least for me, it's an enormous help to have all patches at least
>> CC'd, or better still, only posted, to -hackers.
I'm not certain that David's convenience should be the exclusive
consideration when deciding what goes where ;-)
> I cross-posted as it's a docs change, but I want to invite the
> critical eye of those who dev'd it. Okay, so doc patches should go
> exclusively to the -hackers list? Last time I recall some disparity
> surrounding what I should be doing.
If we do that then it becomes worth wondering what the -docs list is for
at all. Maybe we *should* get rid of it; I dunno. I see your point
about how the factual issues involved in a docs change ought to be
vetted on -hackers, but on the other hand the traffic on -hackers is so
high already that I'm not happy about folding another list with a
reasonably distinct charter into it.
regards, tom lane