Gregory Stark wrote:
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>
> "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I follow. I tried last week to give some hours for patch
> >> review. What actually happened was that I had to wade through a ton of
> >> stuff, skipping patches that were already applied, threads that were
> >> purely discussion but not patches, threads about earlier versions of
> >> some patches.
> >
> > Yep, that describes the painful process well.
> >
> > I have tried to stay on top of patches already applied but I am doing a
> > clock sweep over the queue and you probably caught a spot I was nearing.
>
> I've also tried to find stuff I could review and failed repeatedly. I have a
> week now where I could spend a lot of time on this so I'll try again.
>
> Am i looking at the right list though? The one I'm looking at still starts
> with a patch to which Tom commented "This is superseded by a later submission"
> which I think has been there since pretty much the start of the commitfest.
Yes, those emails are kept for background material for the later patch.
> > You can download an mbox of the entire queue if that helps.
> >>
> >> Also I don't know what patches we have for the next commitfest. I would
> >> gladly give some time to put up a Wiki page to list the patches for the
> >> next commitfest. Would that be helpful?
>
> I tried this once already. I dumped the first page of Bruce's queue into a
> wiki page and laid it out in a column. But I wanted to add links back to the
> messages in the archive and ran into a problem with that. It also would have
> been a pain because Bruce's list is divided up into pages.
Yep, sorry.
> If we modify the archives to have a URL to go straight to a message-id and
> Bruce generated a list all on one page including comments and message-ids then
> I could process them all into a wiki page in a few hours.
Ideally we could have a message id link to the official archives. Off
list tell me what you want and I will generate it.
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