Not really an important thing to address, but the fact that annotations are linked only to a mailthread and not to a commitfest entry causes some weird behaviour. As reported by Robbert Haas on Discord:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5501/ says that "Created patch record" happened on 2025-01-11, but it also says that Ibrar Ahmed added an annotation on 2022-07-08. even if Ibrar has a time machine, being able to add an annotation to a patch record that won't be created for another 2.5 years is an impressive achievement. 🤔

This seeming time-traveling, is caused by the fact that this emailthread was part of a commitfest entry before: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/3704/

And the old annotation is still present in the new commitfest entry, because there's no link to the actual cf entry from the annotation, only to the mailthread.

One thing to consider is that maybe we want to encourage people to re-open old commitfest entries instead of creating new ones, to preserve history better generally.