Re: Managing the community information stream - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Managing the community information stream
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Msg-id 464B5AF3.8060009@hagander.net
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In response to Re: Managing the community information stream  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> This is even better than our archives due to the problem that the
>>> archives don't have links to messages crossing month boundaries.  Have
>>> you noticed that if you go to the archives, some discussions appear
>>> truncated at a point, but you can go to the archive for the next month
>>> and it continues there?  I find that artifact somewhat annoying.  The
>>> bug report would continue receiving the CC'ed mails, so it would record
>>> them all in a single place.
> 
>> Not crossing month boundaries is super-annoying.
> 
> Indeed, but that should be fixed.  I can't imagine that one
> presumably-fixable deficiency is grounds for changing our entire
> discussion infrastructure.  Or do you think we will find something
> else that has no deficiencies of its own?

Very much agreed, however, changing how it's done might open up ways to
change other things for the better - things we can't do now. But getting
rid of that annoying thing alone does not change anything else, or
require changing of anything else.

//Magnus


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