[HACKERS] Patch application emails

2008-03-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Reminder to patch appliers, If you apply a patch that was discussed on patches or hackers, please reply to the email indicating you have applied the patch. I can connect the commit message to the email discussion but often the patch submitter does not read committers so it would be good for them

[HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have created an FTP file containing all ourstanding patches. It is at: ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/patches.mbox I will keep this updated so people know their patches are in the queue and have not been forgotten. I may also use this to ask people for patch review. Can

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-21 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Can someone suggest a nice web frontend CGI script to a mbox file, one that shows sender/subject/date, etc? I don't need to search or modify the messages, just display them. Run mhonarc on the mbox. It will create HTML

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Can someone suggest a nice web frontend CGI script to a mbox file, one that shows sender/subject/date, etc? I don't need to search or modify the messages, just display them. Run mhonarc on the mbox. It will create

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-21 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: I have created an FTP file containing all ourstanding patches. It is at: ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/patches.mbox I will keep this updated so people know their patches are in the queue and have not been forgotten. I may also use

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: I have created an FTP file containing all ourstanding patches. It is at: ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/patches.mbox I will keep this updated so people know their patches are in the queue and have not been forgotten. I may

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it is time to start giving people official responsibility for certain areas of the code. This strikes me as overly formalistic, and more likely to lead to arteriosclerosis than any improvement in code quality. Particularly with a breakdown

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread The Hermit Hacker
The below basically summarizes my opinion quite well ... On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it is time to start giving people official responsibility for certain areas of the code. This strikes me as overly formalistic, and more likely

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it is time to start giving people official responsibility for certain areas of the code. This strikes me as overly formalistic, and more likely to lead to arteriosclerosis than any improvement in code quality. Particularly with a

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand the formalistic problem, and maybe I overstated its formality, but it seems it would be good to maintain a list for two reasons: I don't have a problem with keeping an informal list of area experts. I was just objecting to the notion of

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand the formalistic problem, and maybe I overstated its formality, but it seems it would be good to maintain a list for two reasons: In projects like gcc and the GNU binutils, we use a MAINTAINERS file. Some people have blanket write

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand the formalistic problem, and maybe I overstated its formality, but it seems it would be good to maintain a list for two reasons: I don't have a problem with keeping an informal list of area experts. I was just objecting to the notion

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In projects like gcc and the GNU binutils, we use a MAINTAINERS file. Some people have blanket write privileges. Some people have write priviliges to certain areas of the code. Anybody else needs a patch to be approved before they can check it in.

Re: [HACKERS] Patch application

2001-03-19 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In projects like gcc and the GNU binutils, we use a MAINTAINERS file. Some people have blanket write privileges. Some people have write priviliges to certain areas of the code. Anybody else needs a patch to