Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:50:34PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
>>> Le Wednesday 06 February 2008 21:35:54 Peter Eisentraut, vous avez �crit�:
>>>> Yes, I feel we could use a group writeable patch queue of some sort.
>>>> Perhaps an IMAP server setup could do the job.
>>> I've read some developers appreciating the way review board works:
>>>   http://review-board.org/
>>>   http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/
>>>   http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/wiki/UserBasics
>> Hmm, the info on that last page might be out of date, but what it says is
>> that the only SCMS they really support 100% is SVN.  The other ones they
>> claim support for don't work [well/at all] with the post-review tool.
>
> Not having looked into exactly how it works and if it's something we want,
> but if we want to, any reason we can't just point it at the svn mirror?
>
> Plus, I see something on their blog saying taht they do support cvs as long
> as it's pserver. So perhaps part of the docs aren't up-to-date...
>
>
>> It looks interesting though, and would alleviate a few of the problems
>> people have mentioned with reviewing stuff that's posted as diffs.
>> Has anyone here got any direct experience with it?
>
> Can't say I do. But even if nobody does, maybe we should just set it up and
> test? I'd be particularly interested to see how it actually interacts with
> email. From a quick reading, you have to do all the discussion on the web
> and it can dump them out to a list. But not read in a discussion from a
> list.

I could do a demo install on the trackerdemo jail - that one seems to
have most of the prequisits and would not need work to get going. Not
sure I want to install MySQL there though - so we would have to go with
the sqlite backend for the test ;-)


Stefan