Steve Lawrence wrote:
Is commitfest custom built by the postgresql community or is it some open source project? I can't seem to find any information on what the backend is.
Yes to both, sort of. It was built for this purpose, but the result is an open-source project available for others. Source code is http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=pgcommitfest.git ; it's a Perl application aimed to run inside Apache, with a PostgreSQL back-end as you might expect. The application was developed after really not finding the workflow of existing applications like Reviewboard to mesh well with the requirements for PostgrSQL's development process. The main thing that I think may not translate well into some other environments, but might actually work here, is its heavy reliance on mailing list integration. The main thing stored when you add a new entry to the CommitFest application is a pointer to a mailing list URL. For the PostgreSQL lists, that is driven by the message-id of the e-mail sent. The main data stored is essentially is a list of pointers into the mail archives, via message-id, with each tagged for what submission they all belong to. Comments and such actually stored in the web application is minimal; the idea is that you're using it to track e-mails sent to the mailing list, where the primary review information is sent to.
Another caveat is that there was already a PostgreSQL single login service that this hooks into. There's no internal support in the CommitFest app for account creation/maintenance, it just calls the API available on postgresql.org for that.
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