On 07/10/2012 08:29 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:15:00AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> BTW, I'm mainly interested in preserving the pgsql-testers mailing list
>> for future use; I'm still hoping to find time to get a serious volunteer
>> QA effort together, in which case it will need a mailing list. So we
>> could kill off pgsql-testers now, but I'll probably just be asking to
>> revive it next year if you do.
>
> I have never been a fan of our cycle of "let's try something --- oh,
> that didn't work --- let's not tell anyone --- (years later) why is this
> here". I vote we remove it, and in the future, if we decide not to use
> something, let's not assume some amazing idea is going to fix it ---
> let's just remove it proactively.
I fully agree - if we ever figure out how that "serious QA" thingy is
going to work we can easily add a dedicated and maybe even more
appropriately named list. refacturing a list that we have people
subscribed to under a specific purpose into something that might be
something entirely different "next year" seems completely wrong anyway...
Stefan
