[eclipse.org-committers] Contributed flag for patches

[Kimberly Horne <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In punishment for the sins of a past life I find myself again working  
on the Eclipse project IP log.  Yes, I must have been a very bad  
person in this previous life, I know.  Anyhoo, in compiling this log I  
was able to use a very useful script from  David Williams and crew as  
a template.  As much as it eased the burden of this horrible task,  
there was still considerable pain.  It's not easy to look at a bug in  
an automated fashion and determine what patch, if any, has actually  
been contributed.  I've entered bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=233291 
 as a request to add a contributed flag to patches in bugzilla.  With  
that flag, a simple query looking for these patches can be easily  
massaged into a format suitable for an IP log.  This flag would  
effectively deprecate the contributed keyword, which is not granular  
enough to attribute contributions correctly.

If anyone is interested in this feature your feedback/pressure on the  
above bug would be appreciated.  Thanks!