Re: [HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-03 Thread Jens-Wolfhard Schicke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: Somehow, prevent infinite loops doesn't seem like justification for refuse to deal with a situation that the software creates automatically. They ought to be willing to burrow more than one level ... see any Unix kernel's treatment

[HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2008-11 currently says that it's closed to new submissions, but this isn't particularly helpful when the link it gives for where to submit them points right back to itself. So, where should we make CommitFestOpen redirect to? The problem I'm having with

Re: [HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-02 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Thoughts, better ideas? Nope, that's why I ignored CommitFestOpen. I couldn't figure out where to point it. Note that I'm going to propose replacing the wiki with real software come 8.5. The wiki method confuses new reviewers, and makes me spend about 500% as much time managing

Re: [HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-02 Thread Brendan Jurd
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I'm having with this is that the current scheme for naming commitfest pages assumes you know the date for each one. It seems way premature to bet on when the first 8.5 fest will start. Wikimedia does seem to

Re: [HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that I'm going to propose replacing the wiki with real software come 8.5. Where is this real software going to come from? I can't imagine that software with more functionality than the wiki is going to spring into existence without a huge investment

Re: [HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that if you rename a page you also need to update any redirects which point to it. The directions on the move tab imply that this is taken care of automatically? But anyway it'll just be a minor amount of extra work when the time comes.

Re: [HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-02 Thread Greg Smith
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Tom Lane wrote: Brendan Jurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that if you rename a page you also need to update any redirects which point to it. The directions on the move tab imply that this is taken care of automatically? What you get when you move something is redirect

Re: [HACKERS] Where to point CommitFestOpen?

2008-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Tom Lane wrote: The directions on the move tab imply that this is taken care of automatically? What you get when you move something is redirect page that translates the old name into the new one. But if you were already targeting