On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote:

> > On 01 Sep 2017, at 15:40, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org>
> wrote:
> >> Erik Rijkers wrote:
> >>> Would it be possible to change the commitfest a bit and make it
> possible to
> >>> add the commit (or commit-message, or hash) to the thread in the
> >>> commitfest-app.
> >>
> >> +1 to add one or more commit hashes to CF entry metadata.
> >>
> >> (Back-filling for old entries welcome)
> >
> > Couldn't the CF app scrape the commit messages for references to
> > threads, and if the commit message points to a thread with exactly 1
> > patch record, associate the commit to that patch?
>
> Since there is a Gitlink field in the patch metadata, we could start simple
> with setting that to link to the commit on pg gitweb?  While adding the
> thread
> of the commit from -committers would be great as well, this gets us off the
> ground quickly.
>

The original idea behind the gitlink field was to link to a git repo/branch
representing the patch, for people who preferred to publish full branches
for those that want it.

This has been done for a grand total of 43 patches throughout (out of a
total of 1231).

Not sure if that's enough to say "let's not repurpose it"?

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