From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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To: | "Stephen Frost" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Greg Stark" <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pgsql-patches considered harmful |
Date: | 2006-07-12 16:21:05 |
Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0FAF3@algol.sollentuna.se |
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> > I have the additional complaint that this doesn't actually
> solve most
> > of my original complaints and might reduce the pressure to
> find a better solution.
> > The patches announcements themselves would still be basically
> > invisible within the community.
>
> I'm with Greg on this one. I felt his original complaint
> made alot of sense and this doesn't really deal with it. I'd
> much rather see -patches go away or maybe become an alias to
> -hackers. If the patch is too big then perhaps either
> compress it or provide a link to it when it's submitted. If
> hosting for patches is an issue then perhaps provide a way
> for patches to be hosted on a PG server. Honestly, I'd be
> happy to put up any PG patches sent to me on a well connected
> server. I'm not sure how easy it'd be to automate that
> though (and prevent spammers/etc), but perhaps people have
> some suggestions?
There are list servers out there capable of simply ripping any
attachments to a message (possibly over a certain size) and stick it on
a website, replacing it with a link in the email. Is majordomo one of
them?
If that was done, we could just have patches be sent to -hackers, and
get rid of -patches completely.
//Magnus
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