On 05/29/2011 06:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <g...@turnstep.com> >> wrote: >>> My own bare bones wish list for such a tracker is: >>> >>> * Runs on Postgres >>> * Has an email interface >>> >>> Make no mistake, whichever we choose, the care of feeding of such a >>> beast will require some precious resources in time from at least two >>> people, probably more. If there is anyone in the community that >>> wants to help the project but hasn't found a way, this is your chance >>> to step up! :) > >> Yeah, agreed. My basic requirements are: > >> 1. Given a bug number, find the pgsql-bugs emails that mention it in >> the subject line. Note that the archives would actually MOSTLY do >> this ,but for the stupid month-boundary problem which we seem unable >> to fix despite having some of the finest engineers in the world. > > Many, many, many bug issues are not associated with a bug report > submitted through the web interface. People mail stuff to pgsql-bugs > manually, or issues turn up in threads on other lists. If a tracker > can only find things submitted through the web interface, that is not > going to lead to everyone filing bugs that way; it's going to lead to > the tracker being ignored as useless.
yeah that's why the original proposal had the plan to provide an email interface that you could CC or forward a mail to that would turn into a bug report, that would still require someone to actually do that, but it is probably not different from moving a discussion on -general that turns out to be a bug to -hackers (or -bugs). > >> 2. Associate some kind of status like "OPEN", "FIXED", "NOTABUG", >> "WONTFIX", etc. with each such bug via web interface. > > Anything that even pretends to be a bug tracker will do that. The > real question is, who is going to keep it up to date? GSM has the > right point of view here: we need at least a couple of people who > are willing to invest substantial amounts of time, or it's not going > to go anywhere. Seeing that we can barely manage to keep the mailing > list moderator positions staffed, I'm not hopeful. I think that a tracker would require a different kind of volunteer that is much easier to find than ML-moderation, but I guess unless we actually try we will never know. Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
