From a8b81f740b1e052912712e9474b9cc7d732cb730 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:31:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add some explicit instructions about the message-ID fields.

---
 template/patch_comment_form.tt2 | 8 ++++++--
 template/patch_form.tt2         | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/template/patch_comment_form.tt2 b/template/patch_comment_form.tt2
index f3e3e52..6c124ad 100644
--- a/template/patch_comment_form.tt2
+++ b/template/patch_comment_form.tt2
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 <p>Enter your comments below.  If you wish your comment to reference a message
-from the mailing list archives, enter the message ID into the space
-provided.</p>
+from the mailing list archives, enter the message ID into the space provided.
+The Message-ID can be found in the headers of the relevant email to the
+pgsql-hackers mailing list, and also in the mailing list archives at <a
+href='http://archives.postgresql.org/'>archives.postgresql.org</a>. It looks
+something like this (the format varies somewhat depending on the sender's Mail
+User Agent): AANLkTinw0HL+jQmrtwXC9Y2tqhcfHFgFekxyyfYGvQrB@mail.gmail.com</p>
 
 <div class='tblBasic'>
 <table cellspacing='0' class='tblBasicGrey'>
diff --git a/template/patch_form.tt2 b/template/patch_form.tt2
index da3f64b..b860b8d 100644
--- a/template/patch_form.tt2
+++ b/template/patch_form.tt2
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ Topics</a> page and add one or more topics.</p>
 [% SET nopara = 1 %]
 [% END %]
 
+[% IF !id %]
+<p>The Message-ID for Original Patch field should contain the message-ID from
+the headers of the relevant email to the pgsql-hackers mailing list, which
+can also be found in the archives at
+<a href='http://archives.postgresql.org/'>archives.postgresql.org</a>. It looks
+something like this (the format varies somewhat depending on the sender's Mail
+User Agent): AANLkTinw0HL+jQmrtwXC9Y2tqhcfHFgFekxyyfYGvQrB@mail.gmail.com</p>
+[% END %]
+
 [% IF !nopara  %]
 <p></p>
 [% END %]
-- 
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