On 05/16/2011 12:04 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > 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. > That looks pretty nice and would probably work well for this community. I'll definitely take a look at it when I get a chance. Thanks. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
