> On 17 May 2024, at 09:32, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On the mailing list, notes like that are both noisy and easily lost in the > threads. But as a little free-form text box on the commitfest, it would be > handy. On a similar note, I have in the past suggested adding a free-form textfield to the patch submission form for the author to give a short summary of what the patch does/adds/requires etc. While the thread contains all of this, it's likely quite overwhelming for many in general and new contributors in particular. A short note, on purpose limited to ~500 chars or so to not allow mailinglist post copy/paste, could be helpful there I think (I've certainly wanted one, many times over, especially when doing CFM). > One risk is that if we start to rely too much on that, or on the other fields > in the commitfest app for that matter, we de-value the mailing list archives. > I'm not too worried about it, the idea is that the summary box just > summarizes what's already been said on the mailing list, or is transient > information like "I'll get to this tomorrow" that's not interesting to > archive. One way to ensure we capture detail could be if the system would send an automated email to the thread summarizing the entry when it's marked as "committed"? -- Daniel Gustafsson
