From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: New mailing list? |
Date: | 2014-06-25 15:35:23 |
Message-ID: | CA+OCxoxe_f=e-xp_5YeU=HK+NBqPUmdTtfbWTSNX17_HxwqUjA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 06/24/2014 09:56 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
>>> The alternative is for all of these folks to leave the postgresql.org
>>> infrastructure, which may be a win for the infra team, but it's not a
>>> win for the community.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I'm really not buying off on this. Their alternative should be to
>> use an existing list rather than pollluting the pg.org namespace with
>> lists for every little thing. If they go off and create their
>> not-popular and not-used list on another provider, well, I don't think
>> the community or anyone else really ends up losing out on much of
>> anything.
>
>
> What Josh is talking about is USERS not HACKERS. The docker packaging is a
> perfect example. If I were a docker hacker that was trying to work with
> PostgreSQL, I would have exactly -100 desire to join any current list on
> PostgreSQL. It isn't relevant. I am trying to solve a very specific problem.
> I don't want the noise of -hackers or -general.
>
> However, the problem I am trying to solve would be continual as versions
> change etc. Therefore I would want a dedicate place to work through the
> issue. It may not be very active, but I want the resource there. It has
> context and purpose.
>
> Why in all that is holy and great in this eternal universe of Open Source
> zealotry would I want to sign up for -hackers to solve that problem? I am
> not looking to re-enter the garden of eden, I am just trying to sow my patch
> of land.
I don't think anyone is objecting to the docker list.
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