Re: New CF app deployment

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> > On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> >> I'd like the ability to add a comment which does not get turned into an
>> >> email.
>>
>> > I really don't ;)
>>
>> > The reason I really don't like that is that this now makes it
>> impossible to
>> > track the review status by just reading throught he mail thread. You
>> have
>> > to context-switch back and forth between the app and the archives. We
>> had
>> > this problem in the old system every now and then where reviews were
>> > posted entirely in the old system...
>>
>> Yeah, people did that sometimes and it sucked. At the same time I see
>> Jeff's point: 300-email threads tend to contain a lot of dross. Could we
>> address it by allowing only *very short* annotations? The limiting case
>> would be 1-bit annotations, ie you could star the important messages in a
>> thread; but that might be too restrictive.
>>
>
> Right - to me that's the difference between annotation (per Roberts email
> earlier, just "tagging" won't be enough, and I think I agree with that -
> but a limited length ones) and a "comment".
>
> It could be that I'm reading too much into Jeff's suggestion though -
> maybe that's actually what he is suggesting.
>
> The annotation would then "highlight" the email in the archives with a
> direct link (haven't figured out exactly how to implement that part yet but
> I have some ideas and I think it's going to work out well).
>
>
Ok, I've pushed an attempt at doing this.

For each mailthread, you can now create annotations. Each annotation is
connected to a mail in the thread, and has a free text comment field. The
message will then automatically be "highlighted" out of the archives and a
direct link to the message include, alongside the text comment.

I *think* this is approximately what people wanted, so let's give it a
shot. If you have a chance, please test it out and comment as soon as you
can - if I'm completely off track with how it's done, we should back it out
and try a different way before we start putting actual valuable data into
it, so we don't end up with multiple different ways of doing it in the
end...

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