Re: Improving prep_buildtree used in VPATH builds

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Andrew's question seemed to be about the message-ID.  I agree the
> topic thing is confusing, though.  I'm wondering if it would be
> sufficient to do the following - if no topic are available, instead of
> showing the form, it says something like:

> No topics have been created for this CommitFest yet.  Before adding
> your patch, you must add one or more items to the <link>topic
> list</link>.

I liked the idea of pre-populating with the historical set of topics.
If you encourage the first few submitters to a new CF to invent their
own topic categories without any guidance, you're going to get some
crazy topics.

			regards, tom lane