Re: Commit fest queue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Commit fest queue
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Msg-id 200804111612.m3BGCwY26361@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Commit fest queue  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Personally I don't think we *know* what we want to do and that's why the wiki
> > is a good interim tool.
> 
> Yup, that is *exactly* the point.  A wiki page is a zero-setup-cost,
> flexible way of experimenting with tracking commit-fest issues.
> A year from now, we might have enough experience to decide that some
> more-rigidly-structured tool will do what we need, but we don't have
> it today.  We spent enough time fighting the limitations of Bruce's
> mhonarc page that we ought to be wary of adopting some other tool that
> wants you to do things its way.
> 
> Perhaps an example will help make the point.  Throughout this past fest
> I was desperately wishing for a way to group and label related issues
> --- we had a pile of items focused around index AM API questions, and
> another pile focused around mapping problems (FSM/DSM/Visibility
> map/etc), and being able to put those together would have made it a
> lot clearer what needed to be looked at together with what else.
> On a wiki page it'd have been no trouble at all to create ad-hoc
> sub-headings and sort the individual items into whatever grouping and

I feel subgroups is something we are going to need from a bug or patch
tracker.  The TODO list uses subgroups.  I think a flat bug/patch list
is harder to understand.

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