Re: Opinion poll: Sending an automated email to a thread when it gets added to the commitfest

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 2:55 AM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> Another thing that I'm interested in adding is some metric of patch
> size, so it's easier to find small patches that are thus hopefully
> "easy" to review. To accommodate multi-patch emails, I'm thinking of
> showing lines changed in the first patch and lines changed in all
> patches together. Possibly showing it clearly, if significantly more
> lines were deleted than added, so it's easy to spot effective
> refactorings.

I like this general idea. Anything that helps us figure out what to
pay attention to in the CommitFest is great stuff. Focusing on the
first patch seems odd to me, though: often the earlier patches will be
preparatory patches, so small, and the big patch is someplace near the
end of the series.

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Robert Haas
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