On Fri, 17 May 2024 at 15:02, Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote: > > On 17.05.24 09:32, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > Dunno about having to click a link or sparkly gold borders, but +1 on > > having a free-form text box for notes like that. Things like "cfbot says > > this has bitrotted" or "Will review this after other patch this depends > > on". On the mailing list, notes like that are both noisy and easily lost > > in the threads. But as a little free-form text box on the commitfest, it > > would be handy. > > > > One risk is that if we start to rely too much on that, or on the other > > fields in the commitfest app for that matter, we de-value the mailing > > list archives. I'm not too worried about it, the idea is that the > > summary box just summarizes what's already been said on the mailing > > list, or is transient information like "I'll get to this tomorrow" > > that's not interesting to archive. > > We already have the annotations feature, which is kind of this.
But annotations are bound to mails in attached mail threads, rather than a generic text input at the CF entry level. There isn't always an appropriate link between (mail or in-person) conversations about the patch, and a summary of that conversation. ---- The CommitFest App has several features, but contains little information about how we're expected to use it. To start addressing this limitation, I've just created a wiki page about the CFA [0], with a handbook section. Feel free to extend or update the information as appropriate; I've only added that information the best of my knowledge, so it may contain wrong, incomplete and/or inaccurate information. Kind regards, Matthias van de Meent [0] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_App
