Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose
Date: 2024-05-17 13:02:10
Message-ID: 4b4682f8-bc8f-4a86-a39d-1fc673d9f060@eisentraut.org
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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.

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