Re: Commit message / hash in commitfest page.

Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 02:55:10PM +0500, Ibrar Ahmed wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:44 PM Erikjan Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to have commit-message or at least git hash in
>>>> commitfest. It will be very easy to track commit against commitfest
>>>> item.

>>> Commitfest items always point to discussion threads. These threads often
>>> end with a message that says that the patch is pushed. IMHO, that
>>> message would be the place to include the commithash. It would also be
>>> easily findable via the commitfest application.

> I think it might be useful to actually have that directly in the CF app,
> not just in the thread. There would need to a way to enter multiple
> hashes, because patches often have multiple pieces.

> But maybe that'd be too much unnecessary burden. I don't remember when I
> last needed this information. And I'd probably try searching in git log
> first anyway.

Yeah, I can't see committers bothering to do this. Including the
discussion thread link in the commit message is already pretty
significant hassle, and something not everybody remembers/bothers with.

But ... maybe it could be automated? A bot looking at the commit log
could probably suck out the thread links and try to match them up
to CF entries. Likely you could get about 90% right even without that,
just by matching the committer's name and the time of commit vs time
of CF entry closure.

regards, tom lane