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

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list
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In response to Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 11:50 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you think these acronyms make it difficult for some to contribute to
Postgres?  I've always felt that they were pretty easy to figure out and a
nice way to save some typing for common phrases, but I'm not sure it's ever
really been discussed

I do think it raises the bar a bit, especially for non-native-English speakers. Granted, the learning curve is not super high, and context plus web searching can usually help people out, but the lists are dense enough already, so I wanted to help people out. Also, mailing lists in general are a pretty foreign concept to young developers, and as AFAICT [1], not all the acronyms have crossed to the texting world.

Cheers,
Greg

[1] See what I did there? [2]

[2] Do people still learn about and use footnotes?


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