Re: Patch abstracts in the Commitfest app

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 8:51 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> It should be a free-form textfield, and only apply to new submissions to avoid
>> a need to backfill. The field should, IMHO, be mandatory. The implementation
>> can be left to discussion on -www iff this list agrees that it would be a good
>> thing.

> +1 for the idea. Not sure if that should be mandatory though, as some
> simple entries should be self explanatory.

Yeah, there are plenty of entries for which the title seems adequate.
No objection to making room for an additional optional description,
though.

> Really this is mainly
> helpful for long and lengthy threads, when people start to ask a
> summary of the situation, so it should be editable and maybe
> automatically generates an email on the thread when that happens.

Editable certainly, but I don't think we want any auto-generated mail.

regards, tom lane