Re: Lessons from commit fest

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera writes:
> > As far as the Wiki page is concerned, it would be good to make sure the
> > entries have a bit more info than just a header line -- things such as
> > "author", who reviewed and what did the reviewer say about it.
>
> We should not try to make the wiki page be a substitute for reading the
> linked-to discussions. (This is one of the reasons that dropped links
> in the archives, such as the month-end problem, are so nasty.)
>
> One idea is to make more effective use of horizontal space than we were
> doing with the current wiki-page markup. I'd have no objection to
> including the author's name and a status indicator if it all fit on the
> same line as the patch title/link.
>

When you say "horizontal space", I start thinking in terms of a table,
like the ancestor of the current wiki commitfest queue, ye olde
http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Todo:PatchStatus

However, the table format doesn't provide well for brief review
comments, such as we currently have for the 64bit pass-by-value patch
in the May CommitFest page.

Personally I think the review addenda are nice. As Tom says, it
shouldn't be a replacement for actually reading the thread, but it
helps to get people up to speed on the status of the patch. I think
it's a useful primer for those who may be interested in looking at the
patch in more detail.

Anyway, take a look at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Template:Patch,
and http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/User_talk:Direvus for an example
of how it is used. This is my first stab at writing a patch queue
entry template. It uses a similar structure to what's already on the
CommitFest pages.

To make this work, all a patch submitter needs to do is go to the
relevant CommitFest page and add {{patch|||}} to the Pending Patches
section.

If you guys find this useful, I'd be happy to add a "review" template
in a similar vein.

Cheers,
BJ
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