Re: New year, new commitfest app improvements

> On Jan 14, 2026, at 10:51, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Suppose a patch has already created a CF entry, and a reviewer wants to suggest a code change and attaches a diff file in the thread. In that case, CI will automatically pick up the diff and run tests, which will very likely result in a CI failure. I’ve run into this situation myself; see [1].
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> Would it make sense for CI to only pick up .patch files and ignore .diff files? Or provide some way else to indicate CI to ignore certain emails?
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> Other ways exist:
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> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Cfbot
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> Note the section on “what is considered a patch”.
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> There is definitely room for improved discoverability here though.
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> David J.
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Good to learn. Using a “nocfbot” prefix should perfectly work.

Best regards,
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Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/