Re: [HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-28 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The fundamental problem with bug tracking has been that the available > > tools do not fit with our obviously successful mailing-list centered > > development process. I certainly would consider it a distractio

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-27 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fundamental problem with bug tracking has been that the available > tools do not fit with our obviously successful mailing-list centered > development process. I certainly would consider it a distraction to > consult that tool to be able to partici

[HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-27 Thread Thomas Lockhart
*whimper* I've been out of town for a week, and will not be able to catch up with ~2000 email messages. So I can't even get to the end of this thread. But I must agree that PostgreSQL development is pushing the limits of what a person can keep up with. > I am not interested in finding a mailing l

[HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-22 Thread Colin 't Hart
Matthew T. O'Connor volunteered: > I don't know what a kibo is, but I would be willing to put in some time > helping maintaing a bug reporting system. One of the helpful things with > bugzilla setup with some other big projects is that the bug gets assigned to > a developer and the bug submitter

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage / Bugzilla?

2001-08-22 Thread mlw
Jan Wieck wrote: > > mlw wrote: > > Has anyone thought of using Bugzilla? (It is MySQL based, of course) but it > > might answer the bug database issues. (If you guys want a bug database) > > Bug tracking software that doesn't use transactions and > referential integrity in a multi

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage / Bugzilla?

2001-08-21 Thread Jan Wieck
mlw wrote: > Has anyone thought of using Bugzilla? (It is MySQL based, of course) but it > might answer the bug database issues. (If you guys want a bug database) Bug tracking software that doesn't use transactions and referential integrity in a multiuser environment? Sounds like

[HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage / Bugzilla?

2001-08-21 Thread mlw
Has anyone thought of using Bugzilla? (It is MySQL based, of course) but it might answer the bug database issues. (If you guys want a bug database) RedHat has a version which can use Oracle, but it seems there is a file: ftp://people.redhat.com/dkl/pgzilla-latest.tar.gz that my be interesting.

[HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-21 Thread mlw
I know I am not on the kernel team, but I have been a software developer for almost 20 years. ;-) A bug database is a useful tool IF it has been setup to be so. If it is a bare bones repository for bug reports it will not work. People won't use it. A "good" bug database, i.e. one which will be u

[HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-21 Thread Colin 't Hart
Philip Warner wrote: > I don't think this is a good solution. We really do need a list of bugs. We > probably need to list status and the releases they apply to. Bugzilla can do this -- it has the concept of a Milestone and a Version. > I don't think anybody but the most naieve (or biased) user

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-21 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Colin 't Hart wrote: > We could install the Postgres version of Bugzilla. > Yes, there's a version that runs on Postgres rather than MySQL. > That way we don't have to maintain the bug system. And how does it know when bugs are fixed? Vince. --

[HACKERS] Re: Link to bug webpage

2001-08-21 Thread Colin 't Hart
We could install the Postgres version of Bugzilla. Yes, there's a version that runs on Postgres rather than MySQL. That way we don't have to maintain the bug system. > Ok the functionality as well as the menu item are gone. You do realize > it's going to give the impression that we're trying to