Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
Date
Msg-id 2186.1157326922@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> As for remarks about old school unix hackers not liking web interfaces, 
> I think Tom's recent remarks relating to the 21st century were more than 
> apposite.

I don't see a big problem with using a web interface to search for
information --- they're good at that.  If you're thinking that the
hackers community is willing to abandon email as a discussion medium
for a web forum, however, you're going to be sadly disappointed ... and
I don't see how it would help anyway: a pile of text is a pile of text,
no matter where it came from.

The hard part of this problem is finding a convenient way to capture
status data out of the community's conversations.  I think when you find
a solution to that, you'll notice that email is not the problem.
        regards, tom lane


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