Re: Maliing list request: pgsql-forks@

On 7/30/19 8:38 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 30 Jul 2019, at 15:35, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/30/19 8:16 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 22:57, Nasby, Jim <nasbyj@amazon.com
>>> <mailto:nasbyj@amazon.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    At pgCon we had an BoF for projects/companies that are maintaining
>>>    either forks of Postgres (ie: Aurora Postgres, EDB, Greenplum, BDR),
>>>    or extensions that interact heavily with internals (ie: Citus,
>>>    TimescaleDB). We’d like to have a mailing list to facilitate further
>>>    discussion in this area.____
>>>
>>>
>>> BDR3 is not a fork of Postgres, but it is an extension.
>>
>> On that note, I'd be a +1 for "pgsql-extensions" as it would certainly
>> help facilitate above suggested communication. It would be all
>> encompassing of extensions, forks, etc.
>
> Or perhaps pgsql-distributions@, to make it even clearer that it’s a forum for
> all postgres derived distributions regardless of technical implementation.

(and while I do like blue for the color of the bike ;) I think that
"distributions" is too close to "packaging" and could be confusing.

Why I suggested "-extensions" is that it appears to be inclusive of
things that augment PostgreSQL abilities, be they actual PG extensions
or forks.

Jonathan