From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Kim Bisgaard <kim+pg(at)alleroedderne(dot)adsl(dot)dk>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Joe Abbate <jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project |
Date: | 2011-05-31 14:02:21 |
Message-ID: | 26116.1306850541@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> So in order to start a brand new bikeshed to paint on, have we even
>> considered a very trivial workflow like letting the bugtracker
>> actually *only* track our existing lists and archives. That would
>> mean:
>>
>> * Mailing lists are *primary*, and the mailing list archives are
>> *primary* (yes, this probably requires a fix to the archives, but that
>> really is a different issue)
>> * New bugs are added by simply saying "this messageid represents a
>> thread that has this bug in it", and all the actual contents are
>> pulled from the archives
>> * On top of this, the bug just tracks metadata - such as open/closed
>> more or less. It does *not* track the actual contents at all.
>> * Bugs registered through the bugs form would of course automatically
>> add such a messageid into the tracker.
> That's pretty much exactly what I think would be most useful.
I kinda wonder why the CF app doesn't work like that, actually.
(Yeah, I know the poor thread linking in the archives is an issue.)
regards, tom lane
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