Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> >> As I have observed before, I think we need some infrastructure to help
> >> committers claim items, so we don't duplicate work.
> >
> > Robert acknowledged the need for a "claimed by committer" field in the
> > fest application, but he hasn't got round to it yet. ?In the meantime
> > I've been adding a "Taking this one..." type of comment to an entry
> > I want to claim.
>
> Sorry I haven't gotten around to this. Beyond being a little burned
> out a little bit, I have been a little bit under the weather and a
> little occupied with life apart from PostgreSQL, as if there were such
> a thing. Anyway, one of the concerns I have about this is that adding
> another field to the commitfest_view page seems as though it will
> create some layout issues - the leftmost column will get squished. I
> could (a) go ahead and do it anyway or (b) do it, but modify the
> layout in some unspecified way so that it doesn't impact the format as
> much or of course (c) not do it. Any thoughts?
>
> It would also like to clarify the use case for this a little bit more.
> Is this just to track patches which committers are in the process of
> committing (or have committed)? Or would a committer potentially set
> this on some patch that was still being reviewed, and if so would that
> mean "don't review this any more because I'm taking over" or "I'm
> planning to pick this up when the review process completes" or
> something else?
I am thinking we can just add a new status, "claimed by committer" and
not bother about adding a new column with the committer name.
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