Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > I did offer to post my mbox file so people could see what I have as open > > 8.4 items, but the "no complaining" requirement seems to have eliminated > > volunteers. > > IIRC, the biggest problem we had last time (apart from the > complaining) was that there was no easy way to refer to particular > items in the list. If you could find a way to make the numbering > stable (first 8 characters of the SHA-1 hash of the contents, a la > git? drop every message into a file whose name is the initial number > of that messages, and keep the numbers the same as files are > removed?), it would be easier for people tell you which items could be > removed and why. I think you suggested referencing by subject lines > last time, but the problem is that you had so many duplicates that it > was hard to explain which ones should be kept and which one should be > left, especially because you were making a lot of edits at the same > time (subject A three down from subject B ceases to be clear when > subject B has in the meantime been removed, or when one of the > intervening messages has been removed, thus making the one three down > a different message with the same subject). > > Lest I be accused of offering suggestions in place of actual help, if > you send me whatever script you're using to put this on the web now I > would be willing to take a crack at making the changes described > above. I really don't believe dumping everything into an mbox file is > the best way of keeping track of open to-do items - but if that's the > only choice, then we might as well try to make it as painless as > possible. (I offered to write a webapp to attempt to improve upon the > CommitFest wiki a while ago, so we could eventually do things like... > run a command to dump the latest version of every outstanding patch > into a given directory... and a whole lot of people offered > suggestions for features... but I haven't been able to connect up > with Magnus, so that's gone nowhere.)
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