Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Rowley
Subject Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list
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In response to Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list  (Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 at 04:02, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote:
> I normally wouldn't mention my blog entries here, but this one was about the hackers mailing list, so wanted to let
peopleknow about it in case you don't follow Planet Postgres. I scanned the last year's worth of posts and gathered the
mostused acronyms and jargon. The most commonly used acronym was IMO (in my opinion), followed by FWIW (for what it's
worth),and IIUC (if I understand correctly). The complete list can be found in the post below, I'll refrain from
copyingeverything here. 
>
> https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/understanding-the-postgres-hackers-mailing-list

I think this is useful. Thanks for posting.

I think HEAD is commonly misused to mean master instead of the latest
commit of the current branch. I see the buildfarm even does that.
Thanks for getting that right in your blog post.

David



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