Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrew, > Why are we even dabating a system when it has been reported that the > authors believe it is completely unsuitable for use by the PostgreSQL > project? Not *completely*. More that it would take a couple dozen hours of work to make it good for us, and the resulting version then couldn'

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marko Kreen wrote: On 8/17/06, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Have you tried to use debbugs? If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue that line of thought. http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-debbugs@lists.debian.org/msg01266.ht

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Marko Kreen
On 8/17/06, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Have you tried to use debbugs? If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue that line of thought. http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-debbugs@lists.debian.org/msg01266.html ( bzr get http:/

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Jim Nasby
On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: The searching capabilities in debbugs are, well, non-existent, which is a real problem in my mind. Well, we can set up our own indexing, like Oleg and Teodor have done in http://www.pgsql.ru/ That seems like quite a hack for something th

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I wrote: I will check about Greg's complaint about race conditions in updating comments. My initial impression is that this is no longer so, but I will get a definite answer. My impression was correct. Each comment on a bug gets its own row, marked by bug-id, commenter-id and timestamp

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm listed on various mozilla bugs and occasionally get notifications of updates but I can't reply to those notifications and I'm not about to fire up a browser and log in and search for the bug just to add comments. It's real

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: > Josh Berkus writes: > > > On the other hand, a lot of my personal dislike of BugZilla seems to be > > based on being forced to use old versions. A lot of the stuff I hate > > about it has been fixed in the current version. > > Does that include it being basically a web

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm listed on various mozilla bugs and occasionally get notifications of > updates but I can't reply to those notifications and I'm not about to fire up > a browser and log in and search for the bug just to add comments. It's really not that painful: eve

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I expect if you set up a web-based interface it won't be a matter of people digging in heels so much as just being indifferent to it. And like most projects the bugs will just accumulate and not get feedback. And which projects would these be? Oddly enough it might surprise you that the we

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Gregory Stark
Josh Berkus writes: > On the other hand, a lot of my personal dislike of BugZilla seems to be > based on being forced to use old versions. A lot of the stuff I hate > about it has been fixed in the current version. Does that include it being basically a web-only interface? I'm listed on va

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
So, the question is whether any of our biggest bug-fixers would dig in their heels and scream "No!" if we gave BugZilla a try. Comments? I could have this setup this weekend should we vote YES :) Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Josh Berkus
All, I chatted some with some of the Debian folks who maintain Debbugs. They thought it would take a significant amount of work to adapt it to PostgreSQL, in addition to the obvious needs to improve the web interface. RT has some significant short comings for our project such as not having go

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Have you tried to use debbugs? I agree with Greg Stark that it's a better fit for our current procedure, while enabling better traceability. The principal strike against debbugs seems to be that the source code is not readily

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:20:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Have you tried to use debbugs? I agree with Greg Stark that it's a > > better fit for our current procedure, while enabling better > > traceability. > > The principal strike against debbugs

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried to use debbugs? I agree with Greg Stark that it's a > better fit for our current procedure, while enabling better > traceability. The principal strike against debbugs seems to be that the source code is not readily available and/or isn't

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Have you tried to use debbugs? > > If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue > that line of thought. Josh Berkus said he'd try to talk to the Debian people at LinuxWorld -- let's see if something materializes from th

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Have you tried to use debbugs? If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue that line of thought. The searching capabilities in debbugs are, well, non-existent, which is a real problem in my mind. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ... Red Hat's present bugzilla system > >> could be described that way --- and while I can't say I'm in > >> love with it, I can deal with it. > > > Doesn't bugzilla insist on sending you the complete bug every time? > > Nope

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Doesn't bugzilla insist on sending you the complete bug every time? Nope, it just sends the changes/additions. Other than the lack of a direct email input method, I find BZ quite usable. Josh was just complaining that its source code is a mess (dunno, haven't looked) but

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:05:17PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: I've yet to see a bug tracker that doesn't make it trivial to identify bugs that were marked as invalid (ie: not a real bug). The only difference is that you actually have to mark Well, if it's inva

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ... Red Hat's present bugzilla system >> could be described that way --- and while I can't say I'm in >> love with it, I can deal with it. > Doesn't bugzilla insist on sending you the complete bug every time? Nope, it just sends the changes/addi

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:05:17PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > I've yet to see a bug tracker that doesn't make it trivial to > > identify bugs that were marked as invalid (ie: not a real > > bug). The only difference is that you actually have to mark > Well, if it's invalid, it shouldn't b

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who > > refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still > > personally find it much more convenient to read and respond > > to mailing-list postings than to have to go

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
RT has an E-mail interface. That was one of our considerations when we used it to replace our aging trouble ticket system. What does the interface need to do? RT's is pretty flexible. Ken On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:59:46PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Ken

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:22:43PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:29 , Tom Lane wrote: > > >So my current take on this would be that the bug tracker > >would have to have a reasonable "output" email capability, but I'd not > >necessarily insist on being able to "input

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:52:21AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable "output" email > > capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to "input" > > to it by mail. Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be describe

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > This, however, I would find very useful - both as a -hacker > and as a > > user. The point is that only confirmed things should be in > there, so > > only confirmed things should be returned on searches and whatevr. > > (private not as in not visible to the public, but private as in > > wri

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
> These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who > refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still > personally find it much more convenient to read and respond > to mailing-list postings than to have to go and visit random > web pages to find out if there's something I need to

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can > > email the bugs > > > list or use the bugs -> email form from the website. Are > > you looking > > > to increase the barrier for bug reporting? > > > > Any garbage (ie. spam) is generally filtered before it

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:48:54PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > This, however, I would find very useful - both as a -hacker and as a > user. The point is that only confirmed things should be in there, so > only confirmed things should be returned on searches and whatevr. > (private not as in not

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can > email the bugs > > list or use the bugs -> email form from the website. Are > you looking > > to increase the barrier for bug reporting? > > Any garbage (ie. spam) is generally filtered before it hits > the -bugs list itself Spam:

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Well, you need to get some agreement on what the bug tracker > is for. Is > it: > > a) a front-end to deal with complaints and bugs people have. > Is it something you expect end users to look at? This is how > Debian uses its bug-tracker, to make sure issues people bring > up don't get lost.

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Josh Berkus schrieb: Greg, In short, it's just a tool to solve a problem we actually have (having a convenient archive of data about current and past bugs) without inventing problems to solve with extra process that we aren't already doing anyways. RT can be set up similarly but I'm not sure

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Josh Berkus
Greg, In short, it's just a tool to solve a problem we actually have (having a convenient archive of data about current and past bugs) without inventing problems to solve with extra process that we aren't already doing anyways. RT can be set up similarly but I'm not sure how much work it would

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Let me add that most entries that illict a quick patch or TODO item do not come in through the bugs list, but are rather problems people post to ther lists, or are the result of discussions. --- Gregory Stark wrote: > Andrew

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > If you want the latter, the approach would be to keep pgsql-bugs and > when a real issue comes up, bounce it to the bug tracker. Any > subsequent email discussion should then get logged in the bug report. That's what I want. I don't want the bug tracking system to

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > What we are talking about here is bug triage. I think we are actually talking about bug *tracking*. > One sensible way to do this would be to have a group of suitably > qualified volunteers who could perform this function on a roster > basis, for, say, a week or a two at a

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gregory Stark wrote: > The Debian system would be basically zero operational change. > pgsql-bugs would continue to exist exactly as it does now except it > would go through debbugs. Debbugs is fine and all, but they don't seem to publish their code on a regular basis. -- Peter Eisentraut http:

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Gregory Stark
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What we are talking about here is bug triage. Really? We have a problem with too many bug reports and need a tool to help triage them? That's the first I've heard of that. Think about what tasks you do now and what tool would make it easier. Don't tr

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Robert Treat wrote: I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs -> email form from the website. Are you looking to increase the barrier for bug reporting? Any garbage (ie. spam) is generally filtered before it hits the -bugs

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread mdean
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:43:12PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings th

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:43:12PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Tom, > > > These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use > > a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more > > convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings than to have to > >

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:14:47AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > What we are talking about here is bug triage. Weeding out misreports, > duplicates etc. is a prime part of this function. It is essential to the > health of any functioning bug tracking system. All it takes is > resources. Is it w

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:28:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 14:10 schrieb Robert Treat: I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs -> email form from the website. Are you lo

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:28:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 14:10 schrieb Robert Treat: > > I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list > > or use the bugs -> email form from the website. Are you looking to > > increase the barrie

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 00:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable "output" email > > capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to "input" > > to it by mail. Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be described > > t

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 14:10 schrieb Robert Treat: > I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list > or use the bugs -> email form from the website. Are you looking to > increase the barrier for bug reporting? Only a small fraction of the new posts on pgsql-bugs

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use > a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more > convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings than to have to > go and visit random web pages to find out if there's something I need to

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable "output" email > capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to "input" > to it by mail. Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be described > that way --- and while I can't say I'm in love with it, I can deal > w

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:29 , Tom Lane wrote: So my current take on this would be that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable "output" email capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to "input" to it by mail. Setting aside the email in, how would people feel about Atom o

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if we ever came up with one, but I know that the big "deal > killer" for a bug tracker is that a lot of hackers don't want to be > forced to use a web interface instead of email. So basically, to be > accepted, a bug tracker would have to ha

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread mdean
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: We have three candidates already -- debbugs, RT and Gnats. The first has the advantage that was written by hackers, for hackers, so it doesn't have any of the insane "for end users" stuff which annoys so many people around here ;-) (On the other hand it does have

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
We have three candidates already -- debbugs, RT and Gnats. The first has the advantage that was written by hackers, for hackers, so it doesn't have any of the insane "for end users" stuff which annoys so many people around here ;-) (On the other hand it does have some web stuff for generating rep

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
I've used and use RT. It is web based for admin, but all the transactions are E-Mail based. http://www.bestpractical.com I can also make a test queue on my instance if someone wants to play. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL > > as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a > > list of features and requirements? > > I don't know if we ever came

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a list of features and requirements? I don't know if we eve

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL > as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a > list of features and requirements? I don't know if we ever came up with one, but I know that the

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Kenneth Marshall
RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a list of features and requirements? Ken On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:59:52AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > >I am suggest

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread mdean
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I am suggesting that. I have heard all the old discussions about not using a bugtracker, but in all fairness, I think some of us have to create critical mass and get something started. I will install anything, and everythi

BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I am suggesting that. I have heard all the old discussions about not using a bugtracker, but in all fairness, I think some of us have to create critical mass and get something started. I will install anything, and everything, if you can get some sor

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:27:46PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Does that "rails thing" also have a bug tracker that integrates with > > mailing lists? IIRC the show-stopper on a bug tracker was finding one > > that allowed people to still use mailing lists. > > AFAIU the showstopper was that

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:16:19AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > I just threw the trac out there because it was already setup. I don't > > care if anyone uses it or not. Nor am I suggesting that it *should* be used. > > > > Lastly if you review this thread you would see

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:16:19AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I just threw the trac out there because it was already setup. I don't > care if anyone uses it or not. Nor am I suggesting that it *should* be used. > > Lastly if you review this thread you would see that Andrew and I had > alrea

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Actually I'd *like* to use something better than CVSWeb, because you know what? It sucks and I'd love to have something better. I'd also I am not opposed to actually using taylor or something to do the conversion instead. I just couldn't get it to work. I think the devel version of Trac

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > O.k. but no one is suggesting that we use Trac as a bug tracker, or at > > least I wasn't. All I was suggesting was the ability to help viewing of > > specific files as listed dependencies. > > I am suggesting that. I have heard all the old discussions about not > usin

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >>http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql/browser/tags/REL8_1_4/pgsql > >> > >>What are you looking at Alvaro? > > > >Exactly that URL, but this wasn't there when I looked. Maybe it was > >being regenerated at that time? > > Yeah it gets regenerated every 4 hour

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Lastly if you review this thread you would see that Andrew and I had already decided to wait until after Linux World to actually propose something. It is perhaps not surprising, but most of the discussion has been focused on technologies (mailing lists, wikis, bugt

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I do not agree. How you determine what release fixes the bug now? We have web page and mailing list for bug reporting but there is not any relation between bug, patch and release(s). I think bug tracking is necessary if we want move forward. You can completely forget the idea of having an ac

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql/browser/tags/REL8_1_4/pgsql What are you looking at Alvaro? Exactly that URL, but this wasn't there when I looked. Maybe it was being regenerated at that time? Yeah it gets regenerated every 4 hours or so. But I don't know why you are ignor

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >Jim Nasby wrote: > >>First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's > >>already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is > >>trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to > >>find it

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Neil Conway napsal(a): However, is there a reason to use Trac beyond the fact that it is already setup? ISTM we only need a wiki, and don't need the other features of Trac, such as the bug tracker. I do not agree. How you determine what release fixes the bug now? We have web page and mailing

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:02:36PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I think it is a combination of the two. A wiki could be used to discuss ideas for todos, it could be used to describe TODOs in actual detail, it could used (in conjunction with Trac) to be able to docu

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:02:36PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I think it is a combination of the two. A wiki could be used to discuss > ideas for todos, it could be used to describe TODOs in actual detail, it > could used (in conjunction with Trac) to be able to document dependecies > for

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > It seems some people like the authoritative TODO list, and others want a > > TODO wiki that they can add stuff to without having to get community > > buy-in. I have trouble seeing how the wiki doesn't just end up being a > > blog of ideas, but I see no harm in it as

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
It seems some people like the authoritative TODO list, and others want a TODO wiki that they can add stuff to without having to get community buy-in. I have trouble seeing how the wiki doesn't just end up being a blog of ideas, but I see no harm in it as long as it is clear the items haven't pas

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim Nasby wrote: > First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's > already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is > trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to > find it yesterday...) > > On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Tom Lane w

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Merlin Moncure wrote: > On 8/9/06, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't > > > >> ;-) > > > > > > > > Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we > > >

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Neil Conway wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:33 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: No, like the rest of the world, Trac has moved on from CVS ;) There is CVSTrac (www.cvstrac.org), which actually predates Trac. However, is there a reason to use Trac beyond the fact that it is already setup? ISTM we

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:33 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > No, like the rest of the world, Trac has moved on from CVS ;) There is CVSTrac (www.cvstrac.org), which actually predates Trac. However, is there a reason to use Trac beyond the fact that it is already setup? ISTM we only need a wiki, an

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) Oh and answer Jim's questi

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) I just noticed that the co

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim Nasby wrote: > First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's > already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is > trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to > find it yesterday...) I just noticed that the code repository on

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Jim Nasby
First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 8/9/06, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> > >> Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't ;-) > > > > Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we > > want everyone's idea of a useful feature listed? I d

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Marc, > > ... will post something to -www as > > soon as I have something up and running ... Given that JD is already pulling something into a Trac instance, why don't we just try using that? It has both an issue tracker and a wiki, and it's up and running now. When we have a firmer idea wha

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Page
IL PROTECTED]>; "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" Sent: 10/08/06 05:30 Subject: RE: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status > Two words: House Hunting ... Yeuch. Toronto? > ... will post something to -www as soon as I have something up and running ... Ok, cool. /D

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Lukas Smith
Tom Lane wrote: Yeah, the main problem I have with TODO-on-a-wiki is the question of quality control. I've been heard to complain that "the TODO list consists of everything Bruce thinks is a good idea", but for the most part things don't get onto TODO without some rough consensus on the mailing

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Treat wrote: >> Wouldn't a thread reply saying something like "Bruce, can we add this as a >> TODO with the following wording: blah blah blah" likely suffice? That's pretty much how it's done now ... > Yeah - and/or a patch to TODO or the rele

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Dave Page wrote: Marc was setting up developer.postgresql.org as a developers wiki btw... Dunno what happened to that. Marc? Two words: House Hunting ... I have to download the stuff from pgFoundry tomorrow night, already have the database server running locally ... wil

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Robert Treat wrote: On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:12, Bruce Momjian wrote: One possibility: have a 'holding area' (perhaps on a Wiki) where users could add use-cases for these ideas. If there's 'enough demand' (however one defines that), they get promoted to the TODO. Note that this is somethin

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:12, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > One possibility: have a 'holding area' (perhaps on a Wiki) where users > > could add use-cases for these ideas. If there's 'enough demand' (however > > one defines that), they get promoted to the TODO. Note that this is > > something geare

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:56:42PM -0700, Neil Conway wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:15 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Well, either people post the changes publically or I trust a few people. > > I don't trust everyone or the TODO becomes a dumping ground, which I am > > afraid might happen wit

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:15 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Well, either people post the changes publically or I trust a few people. > I don't trust everyone or the TODO becomes a dumping ground, which I am > afraid might happen with a wiki that anyone can update. I think that's preventable, especia

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Hammond wrote: I am actually hoping that jabber.postgresql.org would help that in the long run. Jabber's ok, but why not go with SILC instead? Because everything supports jabber, I only know of SILC and gaim that support SILC :). Also Jabber is pretty much an accepted standard at this

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It would also be useful to have possible dependencies. I recently saw a patch come across from Sun, that Tom commented on, something about increase the size of some value to 64bit. I don't recall exactly. Tom's comments although val

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Hammond
> I am actually hoping that jabber.postgresql.org would help that in the > long run. Jabber's ok, but why not go with SILC instead? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Josh Berkus" ; "Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" Sent: 09/08/06 17:00 S

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would also be useful to have possible dependencies. I recently saw > a patch come across from Sun, that Tom commented on, something about > increase the size of some value to 64bit. I don't recall exactly. > Tom's comments although valid (as usual

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
OK, so what do you want to do? Oh, sure makes us deliver on our arguments. How very un open source of you :).. Let me get with andrew and I will post back and actual solidified idea. Andrew and I are tabling this until I get back from LinuxWorld. We will be discussing potential ideas to pr

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am keeping URLs in the TODO list. Why don't people submit improvements to the TODO list, rather than adding more complexity by making a separate wiki for every TODO item? If no one updates the TODO item, what makes you think they are going to do somethin in a wiki? W

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