Re: First CommitFest: July 15th

On Friday 03 July 2009 05:16:41 Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Zdenek Kotala<Zdenek.Kotala@sun.com> wrote:
> > Josh Berkus píše v st 01. 07. 2009 v 17:21 -0700:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> There's been a lot of discussion/argument around how to handle the last
> >> commitfest, but there seems to be a total consensus that we want to have
> >> the first CF on July 15th.
> >
> > Can we add flags like bump catalog version, bump page layout version,
> > modify AM for each patch? It should help to track pg_upgrade changes.
>
> That's not a bad idea, and it wouldn't be hard to add various flags
> and things to the CommitFest app I wrote, but how would we maintain
> the information and keep it correct?  It seems like there might be a
> danger that patch authors wouldn't know whether or not they were doing
> those things.  Also, how would we handle changes by committers, who
> don't always go through the CommitFest process?

I think this information could be computed automatically, if someone cared
enough.  It shouldn't be necessary to bother every single participant in the
process with this.