Larry Virden asks:
> Would it be possible for folk to be able to discuss archive names
> here before submitting their FAQs? I know that our FAQ group has
> gone thru the name question process recently. It didn't bother us
> too much to wait (though to be honest I don't know if we still have
> resolved everything!
A problem with having people discuss archive names here on the mailing
list is scalability. If just half a dozen people asked per month, and
4 people replied to each query with suggestions back to the list,
that's a lot of extra traffic. If people want suggestions and ask
that replies go back to them and not back to the mailing list, that
would help keep traffic down. Questions which tried to elicit from
others the "philosophy" which they used to choose *THEIR* archive
names would be fully appropriate on the mailing list, I think.
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Tom Lane comments:
> PS: 1000 new FAQs per month? No way... surely most of that traffic
> must be requests for header changes to existing FAQs. Maybe the
> moderators could reduce their workload by relaxing the rules about
> when a change request must be submitted. Just a thought.
No, of course there aren't 1000 new FAQ's per month. A lot of those
are inappropriate postings (questions from people who think the name
news.answers means they are supposed to post questions to it,
advertisements and announcements, etc.); also, when there is active
traffic on faq-maintainers, a noticeable fraction of those are bounce
messages which need to be analyzed and dealt with. But as for the
part of this traffic which deal directly with FAQ's, it's a pretty
close toss-up between completely new submissions and resubmissions
still in the initial approval process. There are relatively few
change-request reapprovals by comparison.
== Ping Huang
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