Examples of where it's done right [LWN.net]

Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 5, 2015 21:09 UTC (Mon) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: Examples of where it's done right by epa
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

I am not a postgresql dev, so I can't comment on what goes on in backchannel discussions, but I follow most of the mailing lists as a postgresql user, and they have an excellent community. Very helpful and positive.

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Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 6, 2015 3:25 UTC (Tue) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link] (2 responses)

We have/had our share of ugly fights, on public lists. Luckily that doesn't happen continuously. But if you'd scale the development community by two/three orders of magnitude, or wherever Linux is, that'd likely also be different.

Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 6, 2015 8:38 UTC (Tue) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link] (1 responses)

You think so? Part of what has impressed me is that people will show up with... pretty flame-baity sounding questions on the user mailing lists ("I've been trying to migrate from mysql to pg, why is it so slow?" type of things) and they generally get very high-road responses ("tell me a bit more about your use case and the tuning you've done so far"), often from well-known individuals like Greg Smith.

Enough of the leading figures seem committed to good behaviour I suspect that even as teh community grows they take ther cue from the positive examples.

Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 6, 2015 10:12 UTC (Tue) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link]

> You think so? Part of what has impressed me is that people will show up with... pretty flame-baity sounding questions on the user mailing lists ("I've been trying to migrate from mysql to pg, why is it so slow?" type of things) and they generally get very high-road responses ("tell me a bit more about your use case and the tuning you've done so far"), often from well-known individuals like Greg Smith.

I don't think you can really compare lists geared towards new or irregular users (where people don't know each other, don't have their pet feuds, etc), with a development list like lkml. Don't get me wrong - I think postgres has some great resources in such lists and e.g. the IRC channel. I just don't see it being comparable.