On 05/30/2011 04:26 AM, Greg Stark wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Joe Abbate <j...@freedomcircle.com> wrote: >> Anyone interested in the tracker, please visit >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/TrackerDiscussion and add your >> feedback/input. > > I think this illustrates exactly what we *don't* want to happen with a > bug tracker. We want the discussion to stay *here* not on some other > medium accessible only through the web and editable only through a web > interface.... > > Also your summary seems to have missed the point on the "has email > interface" requirement. The table of features you listed has just > "Creation of bugs via mail interface" as the only feature that is > accessible from email. > > I'm not sure what Robert meant but I suspect he meant what I would > want which is the ability to add comments, close bugs, set other > properties, etc. By email. My biggest gripe about bugzilla was that it > sent you an email with updates to the bug but you couldn't respond to > that email.
well bugzilla has an inbound email interface as well that can both be used to creande and to manipulate bugs (as in "mails that have the bug-id in the subject will be added as a comment"). The demo installation did that by simply being subscribed to -bugs. > > My ideal bug tracker is the debian one which basically stays out of > your way and lets you cc any message to a specific bug at > n...@bugs.debian.org which archives that message in the bug and sends > it to anyone listening to the bug. And you can have control commands > to close it or edit it -- basically making all our existing "that's > not a bug bleah bleah" messages into "close nnn; that's not a bug > bleah bleah" messages. that is what every emailinterface should be able to provide ;). However the real issue with say BZ(or most other trackers) in this role is that in order to attribute a bug report or a comment to the original author/person you have to trust the "From" in the email and basically autocreate an account based on that information for the tracker to work with. Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
