On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:33:43AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: > > Two things to fix this, and several other problems: > > > 1. Remove the messages size limits on -hackers. They serve no > > useful purpose, and they interfere with our development process. > > Agreed, or at least boost it up a good bit more. > > > If -hackers isn't already subscriber-only, now would be the time > > to make it so. > > Not sure how that's relevant?
Spam and wackiness. Consider what Dmitry Turin would do with an unlimited ability to send his "specs" to -hackers. > > 2. Start using more git, as many hackers and committers have > > already started to do. This is the kind of situation where CVS > > just plain falls down because branching and merging are > > unmanageably difficult in it, where in git, they're > > many-times-a-day operations. > > This is a red herring, unless your proposal also includes making the > master CVS^H^H^Hgit repository world-writable. The complaint I have > about people posting URLs is that there's no stable archive of what > the patches really were, and just because it came out of someone's > local git repository doesn't help that. The master repository need not be world-writeable, but as many public ones as needed for development should be. I'd love for people to use our infrastructure, but github, etc., would also work. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
