On 30 November 2017 at 01:28, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 29 November 2017 at 20:29, Damien Clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm sorry to insist but my original message was a month ago and I have
>> > no
>> > idea how to proceed...
>>
>> Back in 2004, there was huge interest in setting up a special list to
>> discuss PITR. We did, then everyone waited for me to write the
>> feature.
>>
>> As a result we said "no more special purpose lists".
>>
>> If anybody is actually planning to write emails to this list, why not
>> start writing them now? Why wait?
>>
>> Just use the prefix "GUI". If we get enough people writing emails and
>> code, then maybe a special list is worth having.
>
>
> I think that the core difference is that pitr was basically a subset of
> -hackers. (as was the win32-hackers list, which I believe was around the
> same time)
>
> My understanding at least is that the target audience for a "gui list" has
> very little overlap with the target audience for the hackers list, right?
Sure, but that wasn't my point.
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