From: | Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists(at)toco-domains(dot)de> |
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To: | Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Commitfest problems |
Date: | 2014-12-18 12:53:27 |
Message-ID: | 5492CE47.8040701@toco-domains.de |
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On 17.12.2014 20:00, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Jaime Casanova (jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It has been proposed that we do a general list of people at the bottom
>>> of the release notes who helped review during that cycle. That would
>>> be less intrusive and possibly a good idea, but would we credit the
>>> people who did a TON of reviewing? Everyone who reviewed even one
>>> patch? Somewhere in between? Would committers be excluded because "we
>>> just expect them to help" or included because credit is important to
>>> established community members too? To what extent would this be
>>> duplicative of http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ ?
>>
>> Not much really, I tried to get my name on that list a couple of years
>> ago, when i reviewed more than i do now, and never got it.
>> And while my name is in a couple commit messages, that is a lot harder
>> to show to people...
>
> Having your name in a list of other names at the bottom of the release
> notes page, without any indication of what you helped with, would work
> better? Perhaps it would but I tend to doubt it.
Out of my personal experience in Germany: yes, it helps. It is not very
logical, but many people need a "simple way" (Website against git log)
to "see" something.
(I've rarely seen that something like that is considered not trustable
even if there are strong indications that its faked.)
But i think it is a good point that the release notes should not become
to big.
>> you know, it's kind of frustrating when some not-yet customers ask for
>> certificated engineers, and there isn't any official (as in "from
>> community") certificate so you need to prove you're a contributor so
>> let's see this random commit messages...
>
> Another thought I had was to suggest we consider *everyone* to be a
> contributor and implement a way to tie together the mailing list
> archives with the commit history and perhaps the commitfest app and make
> it searchable and indexed on some website. eg:
>
> contributors.postgresql.org/sfrost
> - Recent commits
> - Recent commit mentions
> - Recent emails to any list
> - Recent commitfest app activity
> - Recent wiki page updates
> ...
>
> Ideally with a way for individuals to upload a photo, provide a company
> link, etc, similar to what the existing Major Contributors have today.
> Obviously, this is not a small task to develop and there is some risk of
> abuse (which I expect the other folks on the infra team will point out
> and likely tar and feather me for suggesting this at all..) but it might
> be along the same lines as Bruce's PgLife..
That's an interesting idea. I'm not convinced that this is the best
solution, but i would help, if community thinks this should be implemented.
Greetings,
Torsten
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