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Re: Commitfest infrastructure (was Re: 8.4 release planning)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, peter_e@gmx.net, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-01-27T18:58:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Tom,
>> Oh.  What's that "watch this page" option do, then?

> Notifies you when anyone makes any change of any kind to *any* patch (or 
> piece of text, for that matter) in the commitfest.  Including something 
> like changing the number of patches assigned to an RRR.

Okay, so it does have notification ability and you do want that, you
just want it on a different granularity level.

> My inability to systematically send reminder e-mails to submitters and 
> reviewers -- or for that matter, even track when they were assigned or 
> last updated -- has been a significant drag on the effectiveness of the 
> commitfests.  Some patches stalled, and I missed them.

Agreed, that would be helpful, and the wiki doesn't help you with it.
So we want a patch tracker that can do that.

			regards, tom lane