Re: Commitfest app vs. pgsql-docs

On 5/19/21 3:07 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 7:39 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
>>> * Laurenz Albe (laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at) wrote:
>>>> Since we have a "documentation" section in the commitfest, it would
>>>> be useful to allow links to the -docs archives.
>>> ... or get rid of the pgsql-docs mailing list, as has been suggested
>>> before.
>> IIRC, the CF app also rejects threads on pgsql-bugs, which is even
>> more pointlessly annoying. Couldn't we just remove that restriction
>> altogether, and allow anything posted to some pgsql list?
> It's not technically rejecting anything, it's just explicitly looking
> in -hackers and doesn't even know the others exist :)
>
> Changing that to look globally can certainly be done. It takes a bit
> of work I think, as there are no API endpoints today that will do
> that, but those could be added.
>
> But just to be clear -- "some pgsql list" would include things like
> pgsql-general, the pgadmin lists, the non-english regional lists, etc.
> That may be fine, I just want to be sure everybody realizes that's
> what it means. Basically everything on
> https://www.postgresql.org/list/
>

It's just a reference after all. So someone supplies a reference to an
email on an out of the way list. What's the evil that will occur? Not
much really  AFAICT.

cheers

andrew

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