Re: Commitfest namespacing (was: TODO, FAQs to Wiki?)

Brendan Jurd wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Brendan Jurd escribió:
>> > I wonder if we should namespace the CommitFest pages by year as well
>> > as month (i.e., move CommitFest:May to CommitFest:May2008). This way,
>> > even after we've had a CommitFest:May in 2009/2010/etc., the history
>> > of the May 2008 CommitFest will still be easily viewable as a discrete
>> > item.
>>
>> Agreed -- this same idea occurred to me some days ago, but I then forgot
>> it :-) For now, it would be good to ensure that CommitFest:May is a
>> redirect to May2008. (I think it would make sense to have a
>> CommitFest:Current redirect and perhaps CommitFest:Next.)
>>
>>
>
> We may need to draw some kind of distinction between the "open"
> commitfest (which is where developers should submit new patches) and
> the "current" commitfest (which is where reviewers should be directing
> their attention).
>
> There'll be a substantial time period where the "open" and "current"
> commitfests are the same thing, but, for example, when the May
> commitfest closes for new submissions, it will still be the "current"
> commitfest, but will no longer be the appropriate place for developers
> to post their new patches (that will become July).
>
> I've started thinking of a commitfest as moving through the following
> stages in its lifetime:
>
> 1. Future
> 2. Open for submissions
> 3. In progress (closed for submissions)
> 4. Complete
>
> We probably need to have the following redirects in place:
>
> * CommitFest:Current (for reviewers)
> * CommitFest:Open (for submitters)
> * CommitFest:Next
>
> Suggestions for alternative (less ambiguous) nomenclature are welcome ...
>
>
>

Why not use a form for posting new patches that would automatically put
it on the right page? (I have no idea if you can do that sort of thing
using mediawiki - it's just what I would do if I were designing a patch
submission system from scratch).

cheers

andrew