Re: Lessons from commit fest

Brendan Jurd wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > As far as the Wiki page is concerned, it would be good to make sure the
> > entries have a bit more info than just a header line -- things such as
> > "author", who reviewed and what did the reviewer say about it.
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> In a wiki context, this sort of thing has got "Template" written all
> over it. I've done a little editing on Wikipedia, so I've got some
> idea about how to make wiki Templates work. I'm not claiming to be an
> expert, but if nobody else has a particular yen for it, I can have a
> go at setting up some simple templates to make it easier to add a
> "patch" or a "review" in a structured way.

One problem I saw is that people commenting in the wiki sometimes didn't
leave their names. It would be nice if that could be improved.

> > Lastly, I would say that pushing submitters to enter their sent patches
> > into the Wiki worked -- we need to ensure that they keep doing it.
> >
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> +1. Although I wouldn't say that there has yet been a "push" for
> submitters to enter their patches into the wiki =) I've started
> adding my own patches to the wiki recently. The only thing about the
> process that sucks is that I need a URL linking to the message in the
> archives. I naturally want to add my patch to the wiki immediately
> after sending my email to -patches, and it takes some material
> interval of time for messages to show up on the archive. My solution
> was to just pull the message ID out of the headers in gmail and fudge
> the URL. So the URL I add to the wiki is actually borked until the
> archives refresh themselves, which is less than awesome ...

Yea, I have to wait to add URLs to the TODO list too, but as you
mentioned I can now use message-id URLs, though I try to avoid them
beccause they aren't as attractive --- doesn't matter for the wiki.

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