Re: PostgreSQL Studio mailing list

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > On 08/04/2014 12:19 PM, Jim Mlodgenski wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Alvaro Herrera <
> alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
> > > <mailto:alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Jim Mlodgenski wrote:
> > > > PostgreSQL Studio is starting to become more popular and a
> > > community is
> > > > starting to grow around it. I've been talking with hackers
> submitting
> > > > patches in private emails, but it would be much better to
> discuss new
> > > > features on a list.
> > > >
> > > > The list is intended to allow PostgreSQL Studio hackers to
> discuss
> > > issues,
> > > > new features and release schedules.
> > >
> > > pgstudio-hackers?
> > >
> > > That would be perfect
> >
> > if it was jut pgstudio-general, then you could use the list for users as
> > well.
>
> Actually -- the BDR devs requested a mailing list too, and they were
> told to use pgsql-general for the time being, and that a
> project-specific mailing list would be created if traffic proves beyond
> some (unspecified) level. Why not do the same here?
>

Discussions about pgstudio would be very off topic for pgsql-general and
could frustrate existing list members even if the traffic is relatively
low. There would be threads about Java coding like should we use a GWT
Timer in place of Thread.sleep. From a more general perspective, we'd be
discussing things like Tomcat and Glassfish configuration.

BDR is a different topic and I think that could potentially be worse to mix
with pgsql-general. Discussing features like global sequences that a
similar to existing PostgreSQL features on pgsql-general could leave a bad
impression of PostgreSQL for the new user when they realize its not in
core. This is just multiplied when the threads are picked up by Google and
people have no context of what BDR is, but its on the PostgreSQL general
list.

>
> (I just checked postgresqlstudio.org and there already is a list hosted
> in bigsql.org. Is this about giving the PostgreSQL Studio project more
> visibility through postgresql.org?)
>

Yes, there is a list, but that list is running as part of the OpenSCG
infrastructure. Many of the patches are coming from companies outside of
OpenSCG and the project needs a list that is hosted on neutral ground to
keep the momentum. If I was more sure about the future of pgFoundry, I
would have just put the list and the whole project there in the first
place.My goal of the list is to facilitate more community development for
the project, not to give more visibility to users.

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