Re: New mailing list?

On 2014-06-20 08:59:52 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 06/20/2014 01:12 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >> On 06/19/2014 11:16 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>> Hi folks
> >>>
> >>> I'm hoping to apply for a new mailing list hosted on the .org
> >>> infrastructure, a project list "bdr-users", for the bi-directional
> >>> replication project.
> >>
> >> hmm why would we need a mailinglist for a specific feature, we dont have
> >> lists for other features either. So what would be "on topic" on that
> >> list that does not fit others?
> >
> > BDR is on track to be a feature in PostgreSQL core - in 9.5 or 9.6 - and
> > parts have been merged already.
> >
> > However, the patch is ready for real world use now, and requires only
> > very minimal changes to 9.4 - sufficiently so that it'll shortly have a
> > script to just convert a 9.4 datadir for use with the BDR patch, or vice
> > versa.
> >
> > Given the level of user interest I've been seeing I'd like to have
> > somewhere for users to communicate about it, discuss it, report issues,
> > etc, so that we have a much more solid feature for merging into 9.5 and
> > 9.6. I'm aware of people who intend to put this into production, not
> > just test with it, so there'll be more than just some chat about it on
> > -hackers.
>
> We've traditionally shied away from having per-feature mailing lists
> as they end up fragmenting discussion, and typically most of the
> interested parties are on both lists anyway. In a (very) recent
> discussion on -core on the topic of having feature lists, it was very
> clear that it is not something the majority of us want to do.

But it's not really a 'per feature' mailing list. BDR is a PGDG licenced
extension (including some patches to postgres) that allows to do logical
replication, including multimaster, today. Using 9.4. I doubt an
eventual in-core facility will have the same UI, so BDR will continue to
live for a while independently anyway.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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