Re: New idea for patch tracking

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New idea for patch tracking
Date: 2007-05-05 11:15:08
Message-ID: 463C673C.8060505@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Dave Page wrote:
>>>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>>>> From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
>>>>> To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>>>>> Sent: 05/05/07, 03:00:25
>>>>> Subject: [HACKERS] New idea for patch tracking
>>>>>
>>>>> As for #3, again, I don't want us to take on a burdensome patch tracking
>>>>> process that is more effort than it is worth, and the lack of people
>>>>> jumping to even manage a simple web page for current 8.3 patches has me
>>>>> questioning what kind of support a burdensome tracking system would
>>>>> receive.
>>>> I don't recall hearing you ask for people to help with a web page.
>>> I want create and maintain a web page that tracks where we are on each
>>> 8.3 patch, but have had not takers.
>> are you thinking about something like
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:WishlistFor83 on steriods
>> (ie with more references to actual patches and discussion and
>> explaination of functionality) or something completely different ?
>> I'm a bit unsure on how this webpage would differ from a typical
>> bugtracker ...
>> Maybe you could give a concrete example for a particular patch in the
>> queue so that everybody can follow ?
>
> At this point, just one line for each patch, and who is working on it:
>
> Patch, Author Committer
> HOT Pavan ?
> XML misc Peter
> etc.
>

that would be easy to do on either the wishlist or a seperate wiki page
and I would volunteer to do that if you think it is useful.

Stefan

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