To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com>,
	"Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>,
	"Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>,
	"PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] New email list for emergency communications
In-Reply-To: <200803242141.m2OLfiZ22484@momjian.us> (Bruce Momjian's message
	of "Mon\, 24 Mar 2008 17\:41\:44 -0400 \(EDT\)")
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From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Organization: EnterpriseDB
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:52:39 +0000
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"Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not sure I follow.  I tried last week to give some hours for patch
>> review.  What actually happened was that I had to wade through a ton of
>> stuff, skipping patches that were already applied, threads that were
>> purely discussion but not patches, threads about earlier versions of
>> some patches.
>
> Yep, that describes the painful process well.
>
> I have tried to stay on top of patches already applied but I am doing a
> clock sweep over the queue and you probably caught a spot I was nearing.

I've also tried to find stuff I could review and failed repeatedly. I have a
week now where I could spend a lot of time on this so I'll try again. 

Am i looking at the right list though? The one I'm looking at still starts
with a patch to which Tom commented "This is superseded by a later submission"
which I think has been there since pretty much the start of the commitfest.

> You can download an mbox of the entire queue if that helps.
>> 
>> Also I don't know what patches we have for the next commitfest.  I would
>> gladly give some time to put up a Wiki page to list the patches for the
>> next commitfest.  Would that be helpful?

I tried this once already. I dumped the first page of Bruce's queue into a
wiki page and laid it out in a column. But I wanted to add links back to the
messages in the archive and ran into a problem with that. It also would have
been a pain because Bruce's list is divided up into pages.

If we modify the archives to have a URL to go straight to a message-id and
Bruce generated a list all on one page including comments and message-ids then
I could process them all into a wiki page in a few hours.

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