Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
>> also think that it's a waste of screen space to show "who" within the
>> annotation view. Granted, the old app supported this, but I tend to
>> think that if I actually cared who added a certain annotation, I'd be
>> happy to drill down into history. I haven't cared so far, AFAICR.
> Hmm. Personally, I definitely care about who made an annotation, but i
> guess I could be OK with going into the history as well. Anybody else have
> an opinion on the matter? I don't personally feel strongly either way.
Hmm ... in the old system, I agree with Peter, in fact I tended to find
the "who" annotations positively misleading, because people frequently
added other peoples' messages to the CF app. It always looked to me like
this had the effect of attributing person A's patch to person B, who'd
actually only updated the CF entry. I think the primary thing you usually
want to know is who is the author of a given email message.
With the new system of auto-adding messages, that particular problem
should be gone, and annotations should be mostly special events rather
than routine maintenance. So maybe who made the annotation is of more
interest than it often was before.
I'm inclined to say you should leave it alone for the moment. We don't
have enough experience with the new system to be sure how we'll use it,
so why do work you might just end up reverting? We can adjust the display
later if we become convinced we don't need this info.
regards, tom lane
