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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Patch queue -> wiki
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 22:43:42 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> The patch queue is by definition transient --- nobody particularly cares
> about what its past state was, as shown by the fact that you've gotten
> along for years with an implementation that's incapable of recalling
> past state.  (Now I do like the idea that a wiki-based patch queue would
> retain some history, but I'm not expecting that it'll archive every
> change indefinitely.)
> 
> The right way to think about and design the patch queue is as a changing
> index into the archives.  One of the things I seriously dislike about
> your current implementation is that it ignores the archives.  You've
> whacked us around two or three times this month developing "permanent"
> and then "really permanent" URLs, but that whole thing is wrong from the
> get-go.  You are not the keeper of the project's historical record.
> The patch queue should be trafficking in URLs that do point into the
> historical record.

Sure, it would be nice if an email link could jump right into the
archives, but until we have a way to get to the archives via a
message-id, I know of know way to automate that.

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