Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists

David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Matthew T. O'connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
> > > Patches are an integral part of the conversation about
> > > development, I think trying to split them up is awkward at best.
> > > Do people really still think that the potential for larger
> > > messages is really a problem?
> >
> > Personally I'd be fine with abandoning -patches and just using
> > -hackers. We could try it for awhile, anyway, and go back if it
> > seems worse.
>
> This would make it a little tougher on me as far as maintaining the
> patches section of the PostgreSQL Weekly News, but I'll deal with it
> if I need to :)

Yes, it is going to make scooping patches from the mailing list harder,
but the existing split seems to be causing more widespread problems that
are harder to ajust.

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