Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

Le jeudi 07 février 2008, Tom Lane a écrit :
> Hmm, the info on that last page might be out of date, but what it says is
> that the only SCMS they really support 100% is SVN. The other ones they
> claim support for don't work [well/at all] with the post-review tool.

Maybe this is all to naive to ever work, but I'm thinking a diff extracted
from SVN looks perfectly equivalent to a diff extracted from CVS. And svn
diff output should be usable the same way any -patches diff?

It also seems to me that when a patch is applied, still pending patches may
have to get adapted to new head before they can be reviewed.

So, what if a SVN copy of CVS HEAD was used for review-board, and
automatically updated from CVS HEAD. The diff which won't get cleanly applied
after an automatic SVN update would not apply cleanly against CVS HEAD
neither, so will have to get adapted with or without the SVN mirror step.

If all of this can be made automatic, short of hosting facility & service
administration, what's still blocking?

> It looks interesting though, and would alleviate a few of the problems
> people have mentioned with reviewing stuff that's posted as diffs.

And maybe it would ease Bruce's pressure to organize the queues and allow all
participants to easily follow what's happening with the patches, without
having to digest all -hackers mail and without manual big-table wiki page
editing. Is it only a dream? :)

Regards,
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dim