Re: Maliing list request: pgsql-forks@

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Nasby, Jim" <nasbyj(at)amazon(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Maliing list request: pgsql-forks@
Date: 2019-07-31 16:37:42
Message-ID: 3bf16f99-e67d-a758-1366-69cc4cc0505e@postgresql.org
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On 7/31/19 11:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> On 7/30/19 7:43 PM, Nasby, Jim wrote:
>>> My concern about calling this -extensions is that it’s really meant for people that are at least at the level of C extensions (and probably only those making use of hooks). That’s a relatively small number of extensions, even if they are some of the most important extensions.
>
>> Well, that may become self-evident based on the discussions on the
>> -extensions mailing list ;)
>
> Yeah, but "-forks" doesn't seem to capture the proposed discussion
> space very well either. I also dislike that name because it seems to
> be encouraging people to use community resources to discuss projects
> that are, um, not exactly well connected to the community.
> "-extensions" seems better from that standpoint.
>
> Somebody previously suggested "pgsql-extension-hackers", which is a
> bit long but might help to push the technical content towards the
> level Jim is hoping for.

+1 for -extension-hackers as an alternative.

Jonathan

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