Re: code contributions for 2024, WIP version

> On 3 Dec 2024, at 17:41, Robert Haas  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 11:19 AM Joe Conway  wrote:
>> While I know you said "you will do you" when it comes to your annual
>> blog, there are a number of similar efforts -- top of mind is the
>> analysis done (as I understand it) by Daniel Gustafsson and Claire
>> Giordano [1], as well as ongoing/recurring analysis done by the
>> contributor committee. And there is the adjacent related discussion
>> around commit messages/authors. It makes me wonder if there isn't a way
>> to make all of our lives easier going forward.
> 
> Yes, I'm game to try to figure out how to combine our efforts. I don't
> think it's a bad thing that different people have different takes;
> this is complicated and looking at it through just one lens is
> limiting. But people duplicating work is, well, not so good.

If we settled on a meta-data standard for how to identify authors, reviewers,
backpatches etc I think that would go a very long way to lower the complexity
of getting to the data and keep folks focused on doing interesting analysis.

--
Daniel Gustafsson