Re: Session timeout on commitfest.postgresql.org

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin Grittner
>> While we're on the topic of CF app enhancements, I often wished
>> that the date of the last change to the "Reviewers" column would
>> show underneath the name(s) where the value was not empty and the
>> date was later than both the "Last Activity" date and the start
>> of the CF.  (Either that or count a non-NULL value set into this
>> column as a reason to set the current date into "Last Activity",
>> but I like the extra date better.)
> 
> That seems complex.
Well, yeah, but I found myself doing this "by hand" when I was
getting organized to send out off-list "nag" emails.  Whenever I
find myself growling "Some day they'll invent a machine to do this"
while doing some tedious task, I consider it a candidate for
automation.  ;-)
>> Occasionally people failed to set a new status when they should
>> have done after linking in a new patch or review.
> 
> I remain unconvinced that any tweaking of the system in this area
> comes out to a net plus.
Agreed; that was just part of my list of things someone might get
right more often if they had a handy link to the documentation to
which they could refer while they were in making entries.
-Kevin