Re: On status data and summaries

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:14:36AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:26:50PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 
> > > Funny, sounds like what I usually do.  I welcome the assistance.
> > 
> > Well, yes, that was my impression too.  The complaint in the thread
> > that started all this, as I understood it, was that there were big,
> > hairy features that tended to have long discussions about them, and
> > very few people among even the committers seemed to have a clear idea
> > of exactly where things stood at the end of coding.
>  
> Something else that would be helpful is summarizing discussions that
> don't result in code (perhaps on the developer wiki). That way if
> someone wants to see the history of something they don't have to wade
> through the list archives just to have some idea of what's being talked
> about. This is probably especially important when the discussion results
> in some design ideas/proposals but never moves forward from there.

What I started to do for this is to add the thread URL to the TODO item
it relates to.

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