On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Peter Eisentraut<pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On mån, 2009-08-24 at 23:07 +0100, Greg Stark wrote: >> I think it's a conceit to think we always fix bugs immediately. > > I completely agree with that one. The claim that we don't need a bug > tracker because most bugs get fixed immediately is bogus because a) it's > not true, and b) it doesn't help people *track* bugs.
Well to be fair I think when people say that they're thinking of projects like Mozilla which have thousands and thousands of bugs in their bugzilla which keep getting moved from one release target to the next until someone is tasked with closing them all because the code's been rewritten five times and probably doesn't still have the problem. That's mostly a problem with GUI apps where users submit tons of bugs which will never be reproducible and may be caused by all kinds of desktop ui interactions -- even things like viruses. I do think some bug trackers make the problem worse by being designed around that workflow, and I want to avoid seeing us being pushed down that road. But we do have pending bugs. Sometimes Tom posts a patch but doesn't commit it because he doesn't really like the fix, sometimes we aren't sure how to solve it or there are just more important things going on. The recent "avoid redundant detoasting" had been a pending problem without a good solution for a long time. Tom didn't forget about that one but there are probably a dozen or so like it and I certainly don't remember them all. And my list probably isn't the same as Tom's list. I would expect us to be like debian where we have a handful of bugs which come in each week. We exchange a few emails and we close the bug. But every now and then one comes in that we neither want to close nor fix right away. When it comes time for a point release or a major release we check that list to see if any of them are things we really want to commit before releasing. -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
