On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Jim Nasby <j...@nasby.net> wrote: > On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>>> This all becomes much easier if we keep the ads out of the commit >>>> messages, and stick to the technical side there. And find another >>>> venue for the other credit. >>> >>> I'm open to ideas. >> >> I think the commit log isn't actually useful for the "advertising" portion >> of this. Users don't read commit logs for the most part. However, it is an >> easy way for people who are writing release notes, press releases, etc... to >> find the information. >> >> Is it a good place for the information? No. >> >> Is it the easiest place to store it until somebody steps up and creates a >> proper way to track it so that it can be desimnated properly throughout the >> community? Probably. >> >> We do need a way to track this information. > +1 on everything Josh said. > > Does git allow for additional commit fields? That would allow for easy > tracking without much additional burden on committers.
I mean, there's git notes, but that's not exactly what we're looking for here, and I don't see how it would easy the burden on committers anyway, and it doesn't solve the problem of not being able to change things after the fact. I think this is a clear-cut case of needing some sort of web application to manage this. I'd even be willing to help fill in the relevant info. But I'm not going to write it myself... -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
