On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:41:51 -0400 Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > And in looking at this further, if I look at the Column Level > > privelages patch on the wiki, the archive page goes to a -hackers > > email. > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00049.php > > > > * Do I now respond to the hackers list? > > Note that we expect that > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00049.php > and > http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > are the same thing: a message on pgsql-hackers containing a patch and > links to the subsequent discussion. You should be smart enough to > figure out how to followup to that message. Maybe but that isn't the point I am trying to make :). I shouldn't have to be. The most successful interfaces are those that are so dumb that my mother can use them. It should *always* be obvious exactly what I need to do. I should never have to guess (in terms of the interface it self). Consider graphical email clients. I want to send a message: Compose or New I want to reply to a message: Reply I want to read a message: Click Consider IM: I want to talk to mom: click, type Mom wants to get my attention: screen popup or glowing icon This is why email is so darn powerful. It isn't ubiquitous because of its age, its ubiquitous because it is dumb simple to use. Email can be just as complicated "if" I chose. Just add PGP to the mix, auto filters, aliases, tags, labels (not sure the difference but I have both), multiple identities etc.. But those are all "features" and are not required for email itself to work. The base requirements for this process must be so simple, so easy, that even if the person has never seen a C patch in his/her life they understand what is trying to be achieved. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
