Re: Patch review

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Not sure if this is platform-specific, but I keep being annoyed by not 
>> being able to actually *view* the patches in the queue. I have to 
>> download them, and then open them separately. I can't just view them in 
>> the browser, because they're all named ".bin" and come out as mime type 
>> "application/octet-stream".
> 
> Yeah, it happens that way for me too.  The other huge, huge problem with
> it is the lack of stability of URLs for the items in the list, which
> makes it difficult to identify which item you're talking about.

yeah that is fairly annoying :-(

> 
> Personally I'd be happier with an editable wiki page consisting of links
> to the original messages in the mail list archives, plus free-format
> annotations (such as status).  This should be trivial to set up and
> reasonably flexible.  With experience we might find we need something
> fancier, but let's not overdesign our solution at the start.

I will see if I can come up with a proposal on the developer wiki for a 
list that looks like that tomorrow.

_IF_ we are looking for an (over)designed solution I just resurrected 
what was left over from the last years discussion on that topic (and the 
creating of the now defunct tracker mailinglist).
What was discussed back then was a set of requirements for a 
(bug|feature) tracker and based on that I hacked up a prototype using a 
modified/enhanced version of bugzilla 3.0.

some of the discussions/criterias from back than are summarized on:

http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/TrackerDiscussion

the demo installation itself is on:

http://trackerdemo.postgresql.org

with a modified bug submission form on

http://pgweb.kaltenbrunner.cc/support/submitbug

basic concepts and docs are on the wiki too.


Stefan