On Tuesday 07 July 2009 11:29:07 Brendan Jurd wrote:
> We're now about a week away from the start of the July 2009
> commitfest, and we need to make a decision about whether to start
> using http://commitfest.postgresql.org to manage it, or punt to the
> next commitfest and continue to use the wiki for July.
I have the following concern: Likely, this tool and the overall process will
evolve over time. To pick an example that may or may not be actually useful,
in the future we might want to change from a fixed list of patch sections to a
free list of tags, say. Then someone might alter the application backend, and
we'd use that new version for the next commit fest at the time. What will
that do to the data of old commit fests?
With the wiki, the data of the old fests will pretty much stay what is was,
unless we change the wiki templates in drastic ways, as I understand it. But
if we did changes like the above, or more complicated things, perhaps, what
will happen? Perhaps we simply don't care about the historical data. But if
we do, we better have pretty high confidence that the current application will
do for a while or is easily upgradable.