Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Alex Hunsaker wrote:

> > Plus it seems awkward to move a discussion thats taking place on
> > -hackers over to patches... Granted I could post to patches first,
> > wait an hour then send an email to hackers/reviewer and say hey!
> > updated patch here! But it hardly seems worth it to me... In fact I
> > would argue -patches should go away so we dont have that split.
>
> The goal is for the patches list to just discuss patches, but often
> there are user API issues that come up after the patch is submitted, and
> people often want that discussion on hackers. The current email split
> can certainly be awkward.
>

A big part of my problem with the split is if there is a discussion
taking place on -hackers I want to be able to reply to the discussion
and say "well, here is what I was thinking". Sending it to -patches
first waiting for it to hit the archive so I can link to it in my
reply on -hackers seems pointless and convoluted.

But if thats what you want, thats what ill try to do from now on :)

For instance the patch Tom reviewed of mine yesterday only -hackers
was copied, so I maintained that but also added -patches because I was
sending in a patch...

I think It will be an ongoing problem though especially for new people
as they probably wont understand the "logical" split...