Re: [HACKERS] commitfest.postgresql.org

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I tried the "New Patch Comment" feature.  It's absolutely horrid.
> I get a page showing a "comment type" button, one line for Message-ID,
> and one line for Content.  No explanation of what those are, and no
> visibility any more of the patch I'm trying to comment on.  I have no
> idea what I'm supposed to do here, and if I were trying to respond to
> someone else's comment, it would be nice to be able to see that comment.

The message-ID is the (optional) ID of a message you'd like to link
to. The comment is the text of your comment. If there's a legitimate
reason for confusion here, I have no idea what it is.

I agree that the comment box probably needs to be converted into a
text area rather than a single line. But I also think that comments
on the wiki should be kept short. If you have more than a few lines
of text, there's a good chance you should be sending an email to
-hackers and then linking to it. There are some projects that are
managed using a discussion forum or a bug tracker and as far as I know
you've always been opposed to that, as am I. So complaining that this
system doesn't work that way seems disingenuous. Also, if you think
this interface is inconvenient for leaving a comment, have you tried
doing it on the wiki lately?

Anyway, I'm sure there's room for improvement in this tool. I intend
to make improvements. I still think it's already better than the
wiki. Moving things to a different commitfest or a different section
of the same commitfest (like, particularly relevant to you, the
"committed" section) is takes me minutes on the wiki and seconds with
this app.

...Robert