Re: CommitFest status/management

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> As I have observed before, I think we need some infrastructure to help
>> committers claim items, so we don't duplicate work.
>
> Robert acknowledged the need for a "claimed by committer" field in the
> fest application, but he hasn't got round to it yet.  In the meantime
> I've been adding a "Taking this one..." type of comment to an entry
> I want to claim.

Sorry I haven't gotten around to this. Beyond being a little burned
out a little bit, I have been a little bit under the weather and a
little occupied with life apart from PostgreSQL, as if there were such
a thing. Anyway, one of the concerns I have about this is that adding
another field to the commitfest_view page seems as though it will
create some layout issues - the leftmost column will get squished. I
could (a) go ahead and do it anyway or (b) do it, but modify the
layout in some unspecified way so that it doesn't impact the format as
much or of course (c) not do it. Any thoughts?

It would also like to clarify the use case for this a little bit more.
Is this just to track patches which committers are in the process of
committing (or have committed)? Or would a committer potentially set
this on some patch that was still being reviewed, and if so would that
mean "don't review this any more because I'm taking over" or "I'm
planning to pick this up when the review process completes" or
something else?

Thanks,

...Robert