Re: "rejected" vs "returned with feedback" in new CF app

On 04/08/2015 03:28 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com 
> <mailto:robertmhaas@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net
>     <mailto:peter_e@gmx.net>> wrote:
>     > On 4/7/15 3:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>     >> I tried to mark the "UPDATE SET (*)" patch as "returned with
>     feedback",
>     >> but the CF app informed me that if I did that the patch would
>     >> automatically be moved to the next commitfest. That seems
>     completely
>     >> stupid.  There is no need to reconsider it unless a new version
>     of the
>     >> patch is forthcoming (which there may or may not ever be, but
>     that's
>     >> beside the point for now).  When and if the author does submit
>     a new
>     >> patch, that would be the time to include it in the next
>     commitfest, no?
>     >
>     > I noticed that as well and have avoided closing some patches
>     because of it.
>
>     Several people, including me, have complained about this before.  I
>     hope that Magnus will fix it soon.
>
>
>
> Yeah, I think my doing so is more or less down to one of the hardest 
> problems in IT - naming things. As in, what should we call that level.
>
> Right now we have "Committed", "Returned with feedback" and "Rejected" 
> as the statuses that indicates something is "done for this 
> commitfest". I do think we want to add another one of those to 
> differentiate between these two states -- we could flag it as just 
> "returned with feedback" and not move it, but if we do that we loose 
> the ability to do statistics on it for example, and in order to figure 
> out what happened you have to go look at the history details int he 
> box at the bottom.
>
> So i think we need a specific label for it. Any suggestions for what 
> it should be?
>
>

If we're moving it to the next commitfest, maybe "Delayed with 
feedback". "Returned with feedback" should be putting the ball back in 
the submitter's court for further action.

cheers

andrew