Gregory Stark wrote: > so.... I went to look for the held patches queue to start reviewing patches. > There are over 2000 messages in the queue in 300 separate threads. At that > rate it would probably be just as easy to scan the patches and hackers mailing > list.
Pretty unwieldy, yes. I'm not sure -patchers of -hackers is really "just as easy" though. > Is someone working on dumping the list into a table on the wiki? I could > download the mbox files from the web site and filter them into a table. > > Some part of me thinks this data should be in a postgres database so I can do > SQL queries against it to find a good patch to review. It's hard to put this stuff in a database. Truth is that it's highly unstructured. IMHO an mbox is not the right interface either, though. I guess there must be something in the middle, like a *cough*patch manager*cough*. At least there should be a way to mark patches: a "is this a patch" (or merely discussion) boolean; and a free-form field where other people can make comments. Well, I guess that's what Review Board is for. I think we should start asking patch submitters to load their patches on RB. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
