Re: Link to bug webpage

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Link to bug webpage
Date: 2001-08-21 15:44:01
Message-ID: 200108211544.f7LFi2n14457@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > We could try going the other way, attaching URL's to the TODO items so
> > people can get more information about an existing bug.
>
> That might be worth doing, but I think it's mostly orthogonal to the
> question of a bug database. The set of problems that are (still) on the
> TODO list is just a small fraction of the set of bugs that someone might
> look in a bug database for --- anything that's already fixed in current
> sources is probably not going to be on TODO, if it ever got there at
> all (which easily-fixed problems do not).

That is a good point. I remove items after we make a release, and we
don't record quickly fixed items. I wonder if I should keep the HISTORY
file updated more frequently so people can see what has been fixed from
the previous release.

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