On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 11:50 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@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?
