Re: commitfest management webapp

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> 3. The integration with the community login system is currently rather
>> poor.  The problem is that we can't count on patch submitters to have
>> a community login, and even if they do we can't count on the person
>> adding the patch to the system to know what it is.  We could of course
>> require patch submitters to have a community login and to add their
>> patches themselves, but I'm not really that keen on raising the bar
>> for submitting a patch even to that modest extent.
>
>> I'm open to
>> suggestions on how to improve this situation, though, because it's
>> definitely not ideal, and precludes things that reasonable people
>> might want to do, like "contact the guy who submitted this patch",
>> "contact the authors of all patches waiting for review", and similar.
>
> I don't understand why that bit would be based on community login at
> all.  Wouldn't contacting someone mainly need an email address?

Yes. Humor me be elaborating on your thought here?

...Robert