Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project
Date: 2011-05-30 20:12:50
Message-ID: 1306786370.5323.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On sön, 2011-05-29 at 11:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> If it has only a partial view of the set of bugs being worked on, it's
> not going to meet the goals that are being claimed for it.
>
> I don't doubt that somebody could run around and link every discussion
> about a bug into the tracker. I'm just dubious that that actually
> *will* happen with enough reliability to make the tracker more useful
> than a mailing-list search.

At least initially, the bug tracker is for those who want to use it, to
help with their work. If it eventually becomes the total-awareness
tool, that would be great, but if we make that the main goal, it will
never get started.

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