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.