Hi Tom, On 05/29/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > In the end, I think that requests for a tracker mostly come from people > who are not part of this community, or at least not part of its mailing > lists (which is about the same thing IMO).
I think that's a bit harsh. I assume you consider GSM a part of the community and he's asking for a tracker, even going to the trouble of posting a "Help Wanted!" article about it. > If they submitted a bug > report via the lists, they're generally going to get replies via email, > and that seems sufficient to me. But if they submitted a report via the > web form, they might well be expecting that they can track what's going > on with it on a web page. And that's not unreasonable. But we could > fix that without any changes at all in our work processes. Just have > the webform add a "cc: bugbot-bugn...@postgresql.org" to each submitted > email, and set up a bot to collect the traffic and display it on a > suitable web page. (Spam filtering left as an exercise for the reader.) I think there's more to a tracker than having bug submitters find all the emails related to it. For example, one can use it to aggregate interesting data, like how many bugs reported per person/email address, or PostgreSQL version or OS (or may be I'm not aware and something like this is already going on behind the submission form). Anyway, I may be willing to do some work on a tracker--if there's interest-- since at least part of the work could fit in with the database interface area of the Pyrseas project. To collect info/discuss, I could use http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/TrackerDiscussion but I see there's a request to not modify/add anything without talking to Stefan Kaltenbrunner. Would a new page be preferable? All the best, Joe -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
