From: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: bugs that have not been replied-to on list |
Date: | 2010-04-19 08:27:02 |
Message-ID: | 4BCC13D6.4000307@kaltenbrunner.cc |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 23:14, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> writes:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>> Bugzilla is the worst form of bug tracking out there, except for
>>>>>> all the others.
>>>>> One of these days, I am going to write a @$#! bug tracker.
>>>> after seen the commitfest app, i can swear the bug tracker you write
>>>> should be cool
>>> ... actually, what about minimally modifying the commitfest app to turn
>>> it into a bug tracker?
>>>
>>> We keep complaining that none of the existing trackers would integrate
>>> well with our workflow. ISTM what we basically need is something that
>>> would index the pgsql-bugs archives to show what the current open issues
>>> are. The commitfest app is dang close to that already.
>> Let's not do that without thinking really careful about it. The
>> commitfest app is good at what it does precisely because it's designed
>> to do just that, and nothing more (or less). Twisting it into doing
>> other things may make things worse rather than better.
>>
>> That said, basing something off the same ideas can certainly work.
>
> I don't think the code is terribly hard to write no matter how we do
> it, and if that means I have to write it, oh well. What is
> frustrating about the current process is that ~5% of the bugs don't
> get a response. How are we going to fix that problem?
by nagging people - if we simply had a dashboard or an email interface
(think of the buildfarm dashboard and the status email reports it
provides to both developers and animalowners) to make the issue more
visible I think most of the problem of "no reply at all" would (mostly)
"solve" itself.
Stefan
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