On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:26, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> 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....
+<as high number as my quota currently goes> It's fine that a bug tracker *tracks* bugs. It should not control them. That's not how this community currently works, and a lot of people have said that's how they want it to stay (at least for now). > 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. I agree with these too :-) It's also missing what I believe is a very important requirement - it needs to have an extensive, and fully supported, API. So that we can easily make it work together with our other services. > 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. No direct experience with the debian tracker, but I agree that being able to do all those things from mail is very important. If it *also* provides a way to do this from the web, that's even better. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
