Re: New mailing list?

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 25 June 2014 09:03, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > I'm gonig to stick to a technical comment, since Stephen and Dave have
> > already said most of the things I'd otherwise say on the policies anyway.
>
> Friends,
>
> Policies are great, but it doesn't move us towards getting a mailing list.
>
> The last time someone in 2ndQuadrant set up a project and a mailing
> list external to postgresql.org the result was roundly and deeply
> critiscised. The attempt here is to "do the right thing", assuming
> that the last attempt was not it. Given that we must also consider
> issues of copyright and legal issues surrounding right-to-contribute,
> this may be more than just an ML discussion.
>
> Anyway, I don't have too much opinion here, other than JFDI, or at
> least within the next 7 days tops.
>
> Please advise where we should create the mailing list for the case
> being discussed (BDR).
>

Why not just use -general, in order not to fragment our userbase even more.
It's already got declining voiume, so adding a little bit more to it
shouldn't be a big problem.

Then *if and when* the volume of BDR questions on that list become large
enough to notice, should that even happen, we can create a new list *at
that time*. That would decrease the risk that people are worried about
which is that we create a list that will be extremely low volume yet "hard
to get rid of" in the future.

(And as before, using -hackers for discussions about the actual development
of the postgres parts)

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