Re: Maliing list request: pgsql-forks@

From: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, 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: 2019-08-08 21:38:17
Message-ID: 9b9b5e49-1093-5317-2bb2-cf836f7a3f63@2ndquadrant.com
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On 31/07/2019 18:37, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> 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.
>

+1 For this too.

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