Re: New year, new commitfest app improvements

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <me(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New year, new commitfest app improvements
Date: 2026-01-14 02:51:48
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZ0Jm00KuGU9suA0mtTUzQ9WcLiubPMcUJ_J7-ix_Dv-A@mail.gmail.com
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On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> 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].
>
> 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?
>

Other ways exist:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Cfbot

Note the section on “what is considered a patch”.

There is definitely room for improved discoverability here though.

David J.

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