From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goalie.tycho.ncsc.mil (goalie [144.51.3.250]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p4IDU7XN011512 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 09:30:08 -0400 Received: from exchange10.columbia.tresys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msux-gh1-uea02.nsa.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id p4IDU4NC013056 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 13:30:05 GMT Message-ID: <4DD3CA34.8090400@tresys.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:31:32 -0400 From: Steve Lawrence MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Smith CC: Kohei Kaigai , SELinux Subject: Re: Patch Review Process References: <4DC804D8.1080605@tresys.com> <1304968880.2521.43.camel@vortex> <4DC84776.8080708@tresys.com> <4DD13501.1060406@tresys.com> <4DD14AF5.1060609@2ndquadrant.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD14AF5.1060609@2ndquadrant.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov 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@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.