Re: CommitFest status/management

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-01T14:43:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> If we went with Bruce's interpretation, we could have a "committer"
>> field that only appears when the status is "Claimed by Committer" or
>> "Committed" and the contents of that field could be displayed in
>> parentheses in the status column, like this: Claimed by Committer (Tom
>> Lane).
>
>> If we went with Andrew's interpretation, we would need a completely
>> separate column, because there wouldn't be any logical relationship
>> between the status field and the committer field.
>
>> Any other votes?  Tom?
>
> I'm happy with Andrew's interpretation --- I just want a separate text
> field for inserting a committer's name.  I don't want any magic behavior
> of that field.

OK, I'll add a separate text field for the committer's name, but for
now it won't display on the summary page, just the detail page.

...Robert