Re: Commitfest app release on Feb 17 with many improvements

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 03:23:56PM +0100, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> At the FOSDEM dev meeting we discussed potential improvements to the
> commitfest app and how to handle deploying future changes with minimal
> disruption to existing workflows. We're going to try a new approach:
> announcing a new commitfest release ~2 weeks in advance, including
> release notes. That way people can try out the changes on the staging
> environment and raise concerns/objections. So hereby such an
> announcement:

Thanks for doing this!

> The next commitfest app release will take place on February 17 and
> will contain the following user facing changes:
>
> 1. Showing CFBot status on patch and commitfest pages
> 2. Showing a link to the CFBot github diff on patch and commitfest pages
> 3. Showing total additions/deletions of the most recent patchset on
> patch and commitfest pages
> 4. Showing additions/deletions of the first patch of the most recent
> patchset on the patch page
> 5. Showing the version and number of patches of the most recent
> patchset on the patch page
> 6. Canonical links for the patch page are now /patch/{patchid} instead
> of /{cfid}/{patchid}
> 7. If you subscribed for emails or patches where you're an author, you
> will now get an email when your patch needs a rebase.
> 8. Clicking headers will toggle sorting, instead of always enabling it
> 9. Allow sorting patches by name
> 10. Allow sorting patches by total additions/deletions (added together
> for total lines changed)
> 11. Add ID column to commitfest page (allows sorting)
> 12. Allow sorting using the header of closed patches too
> 13. Fix dropdown direction for dropdowns at the bottom of the page
> (they now drop up)
> 14. The previous GiHub and CirrusCI links are now integrated into the
> new CFBot status row of the patch page
> 15. The previous GitHub checkout instructions are now integrated into
> the new CFBot status row as a button that copies the commands to the
> clipboard

I'm not sure #4 will be very helpful, but the rest looks reasonable to me.

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nathan