Re: [Postgres-xc-bugs] [Postgres-xc-developers] placing questions using application form from peripheral tool developing team.

[坂田 哲夫 <sak...@la...>]

Michael-san,

Thank you for your advising how to report problems and to place
questions. We understood your points; writing in English and in a plain
text (not dedicated format like as I told).

Hemmi-san, who is a member of XC peripheral tools, has writen some (bug)
reports to the Postgres-xc-bugs mailing list in English and in plain texts.

best regards,

Tetsuo Sakata.


(2012/05/26 12:47), Michael Paquier wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:04 PM, 坂田　哲夫 <sak...@la... 
> <mailto:sak...@la...>> wrote:
> 
>     Suzuki-san,
> 
>     Now we are developing XC's peripheral tools like as back-up, performance
>     observation, fail over cluster. While developing, the tool development
>     team would ask some questions to XC core developing team.
> 
> People are free to ask questions to developers on this mailing list.
> So it can of course freely be used as long as those questions are really 
> related to core functionalities, features, patches or performance. Well 
> everything really related with the core of XC.
> 
> In case the request is more general, I would recommend to use the 
> general mailing list pos...@li... 
> <mailto:pos...@li...>.
> For questions regarding tools, it depends but you should orientate your 
> question to the general mailing list... If there are cases where the 
> hackers ML (developer ML) is necessary you can also use it as well if 
> you think so.
> 
>     In such a cases, we (NTT people) used to placing questions with 'Qustion
>     application form' which includes version of the system in question,
>     environment information (OS name and its version, hardware
>     configuration), operation sequence and its results and so on. (In short,
>     I mean something like NTT's "Bug-hyo").
>     Because it is convenient for us to inform a reciever of things needed
>     completely and to manage each questions easily.
> 
> I believe that people using Postgres-XC mailing lists are free to use 
> the format they wish. However to keep simplicity, and I personally love 
> simple things, people answering such formatted requests are not obliged 
> to follow a special format themselves.
> All the responses are kept on the same mail thread, so this is enough I 
> believe. Keeping a certain freedom when writing emails here is kind of 
> really important as the project is community-based, and basically should 
> stay independent from any external formatting.
> 
> If you report a bug, I strongly recommend to use the bug mailing list 
> pos...@li... 
> <mailto:pos...@li...> with the bug template 
> located in doc-xc/bug.template in source. This bug template is already 
> formatted and has all the fields already related to OS, version, etc. So 
> you should definitely use that. The bug template is based on the same 
> one as PostgreSQL, so as I am sure NTT guys are familiar with Postgres 
> it won't be a huge effort to adapt to it.
> 
>     I was wondering if you could accept the questions placed with such an
>     application form and write answers with it.
> 
> Once again, people willing to response to mails on this hackers ML are 
> not obliged to follow a special format. If they wish to answer without 
> any application form, they can do so. If they wish to answer with a 
> given application form, well they are free to follow anything they wish. 
> Personally I don't think an application form will permit to gain time, 
> and email threads are enough. We have also email archives available with 
> SourceForge services.
> So, if it is a bug, please respect the template in doc-xc/bug.template 
> and send it to pos...@li....If it is anything 
> else, at least in my opinion people are free to answer and interact with 
> XC's mailing lists as they wish.
> -- 
> Michael Paquier
> http://michael.otacoo.com


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