> On 3 Dec 2024, at 17:41, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 11:19 AM Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote: >> While I know you said "you will do you" when it comes to your annual >> blog, there are a number of similar efforts -- top of mind is the >> analysis done (as I understand it) by Daniel Gustafsson and Claire >> Giordano [1], as well as ongoing/recurring analysis done by the >> contributor committee. And there is the adjacent related discussion >> around commit messages/authors. It makes me wonder if there isn't a way >> to make all of our lives easier going forward. > > Yes, I'm game to try to figure out how to combine our efforts. I don't > think it's a bad thing that different people have different takes; > this is complicated and looking at it through just one lens is > limiting. But people duplicating work is, well, not so good.
If we settled on a meta-data standard for how to identify authors, reviewers, backpatches etc I think that would go a very long way to lower the complexity of getting to the data and keep folks focused on doing interesting analysis. -- Daniel Gustafsson
