Re: Commit fest 2017-11

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:19 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
> > I wonder if we should consider adding a field to the CF app
> *specifically*
> > to track things like this. What I'm thinking is a field that's set (or at
> > least verified) by the person who flags a patch as committed with choices
> > like Trivial/Simple/Medium/Complex (trivial being things like typo fixes
> > etc, which today can hugely skew the stats).
>
> I think this would be pretty subjective ... and there are also a LOT
> of patches that don't go through the CF process. The ratio of commits
> to commitfest entries is at least 5:1. If we only track what gets
> registered in the CF app we're ignoring a huge amount of stuff.
>

Definitely. It's easier to add structured data there than in the commit
message though -- but we could also define a standard to add it to the
commit messages. Or some inbetween. But whichever way we do it, it's likely
going to lead to a non-trivial amount of work to maintain. So the big
question is, is the data we can get out of it worth it?

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