On 3/11/17 2:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Nasby <jim.nasby@openscg.com> writes:
>> It's actually a lot harder to mess up providing a git repo link than
>> manually submitting patches to the mailing list.
> Yeah, we've heard that proposal before. We're still not doing it though.
> Insisting on patches being actually submitted to the mailing list is
> important for archival and possibly legal reasons. If someone sends
> in a link to $random-repo, once that site goes away there's no way to
> determine exactly what was submitted.
The full proposal was that the commitfest app have the ability to
generate and post the patch for you, assuming that the smoke-test passes.
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Jim Nasby, Chief Data Architect, OpenSCG
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