Re: Commit fest queue

Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> writes:
> I've often been confused that discussion seem to seamlessly be on either
> -patches, or -hackers. From the understanding I got on the mailing
> list pages (http://archives.postgresql.org/), it seems like -patches is
> supposed to be only for patches, and -hackers for the general
> discussion, issues, features, etc on anything development related.

That's the theory.

> But from observation, it seems like -patches and -hackers are different
> lists of the same thing, except that -patches has a much bigger message
> size limit.

Practice is often different from theory ;-). I don't mind discussion
about a patch on -patches, as long as it's not getting into major design
decisions --- if it does, then the thread should get moved to -hackers,
though that doesn't always happen.

> If not, would it be possible to some how force reply-to of pg-patches to
> -hackers?

No, we aren't going to do that. It wouldn't work anyway; you can't
force people to send messages to one list rather than another, and
the mail list software is surely not bright enough to distinguish
"patch" from "not a patch" on its own.

regards, tom lane