Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > I think it would be helpful for us to provide an infrastructure where
> > people who don't run their own servers to store their patches at a
> > stable URL where they can keep updating the content. I did that with
> > the psql wrap patch and it helped me.
>
> Actually, I find that that is a truly awful habit and I wish that people
> would *not* do it that way. There are two reasons why not:
>
> * no permanent archive of the submitted patch
>
> * reviewer won't know if the submitter changes the patch after he
> downloads a copy, and in fact nobody will ever know unless the submitter
> takes the time to compare the eventual commit to what he thinks the
> patch is

This requires the patch submitter to send an email every time they
update the URL. The problem with no archive is a problem though. It
works for me because I am around to supply versions but I see your
point --- perhaps we could make the system have a stable URL but allow
for versioning access. Maybe email is a fine interface, of course.

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