Re: small but useful patches for text search

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > I did offer to post my mbox file so people could see what I have as open
> > 8.4 items, but the "no complaining" requirement seems to have eliminated
> > volunteers.
> 
> IIRC, the biggest problem we had last time (apart from the
> complaining) was that there was no easy way to refer to particular
> items in the list.  If you could find a way to make the numbering
> stable (first 8 characters of the SHA-1 hash of the contents, a la
> git? drop every message into a file whose name is the initial number
> of that messages, and keep the numbers the same as files are
> removed?), it would be easier for people tell you which items could be
> removed and why.  I think you suggested referencing by subject lines
> last time, but the problem is that you had so many duplicates that it
> was hard to explain which ones should be kept and which one should be
> left, especially because you were making a lot of edits at the same
> time (subject A three down from subject B ceases to be clear when
> subject B has in the meantime been removed, or when one of the
> intervening messages has been removed, thus making the one three down
> a different message with the same subject).
> 
> Lest I be accused of offering suggestions in place of actual help, if
> you send me whatever script you're using to put this on the web now I
> would be willing to take a crack at making the changes described
> above.  I really don't believe dumping everything into an mbox file is
> the best way of keeping track of open to-do items - but if that's the
> only choice, then we might as well try to make it as painless as
> possible.  (I offered to write a webapp to attempt to improve upon the
> CommitFest wiki a while ago, so we could eventually do things like...
> run a command to dump the latest version of every outstanding patch
> into a given directory... and a whole lot of people offered
> suggestions for features...  but I haven't been able to connect up
> with Magnus, so that's gone nowhere.)

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