Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project

Hi Greg,

On 05/29/2011 10:26 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Joe Abbate <jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)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....

I have no problem keeping the discussion here, but I thought perhaps not
everyone on -hackers wanted to see the discussion (there was a -tracker
list that became defunct, according to the page--don't know if people
want to resurrect it).

> 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.

My summary is in the section titled "Discussion Points" (and it was not
meant to be all-inclusive). The second section, titled "Previous
Content" was there before and I didn't want to eliminate it entirely.
You're referring to the second section.

> 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.
>
> 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
> nnnn(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)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.

I see that a full interface is very desirable to you (and others). That
confirms the order of my summary list of requirements (mail interface is
listed before web interface). I'll admit that I became interest in
assisting with this effort due to the latter rather than the former, but
I don't mind carrying the ball forward, for now.

All the best,

Joe