Gregory Stark wrote: > "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Suppose we were using a web-based discussion forum, rather than email. > > That would be crazy, why would I suppose such a thing? > > > For the patches lists I need to take sometimes entire threads, sometimes > > groups of comments, and store them in a format so people can review them > > as a digest. > > Why do you need to do any such thing? What does any of that have to do with a > patches queue?
TODO items and patches are often in the middle of threads. > > If I link to a comment URL, how do people know if they should look at > > that comment or all comments below it? > > They should look at whatever they want to. I usually have to back up several > messages to understand the context and then follow several messages later. You > can't possibly know how much context people will need to understand. You can't > try to control people to that level of detail. > > > If I had omment URLs, how would I present those in a threaded way? > > > So, if we did have a tracker, how would it be different? Comments would > > be more integrated but I am unclear how the patches_hold queue would be > > different. > > A patches queue is just a list of patches with their current status. Not a > replacement for our mailing lists. You're trying to solve the wrong problem. > > The current status for a patch is just something like "waiting for feedback on > questions from message [link]" or "waiting for new version addressing issues > raised in review [link]". That's it. > > The critical information we need are: What's the most recent version of the > patch? what is it blocking on? and who is it blocking on? The discussion was mostly related to the 8.3 patches_hold queue where people wanted help processing it. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
