Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Robert Haas
<robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>,
"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-17T13:02:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 17.05.24 09:32, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Dunno about having to click a link or sparkly gold borders, but +1 on > having a free-form text box for notes like that. Things like "cfbot says > this has bitrotted" or "Will review this after other patch this depends > on". On the mailing list, notes like that are both noisy and easily lost > in the threads. But as a little free-form text box on the commitfest, it > would be handy. > > One risk is that if we start to rely too much on that, or on the other > fields in the commitfest app for that matter, we de-value the mailing > list archives. I'm not too worried about it, the idea is that the > summary box just summarizes what's already been said on the mailing > list, or is transient information like "I'll get to this tomorrow" > that's not interesting to archive. We already have the annotations feature, which is kind of this.