Re: Mail thread references in commits

My solution requires that everything have an issue. E.g., hackers becomes a
tracker.

Sincerely,
Jd

On Nov 19, 2016 09:04, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I wonder if now is the time (again) to consider an issue tracker.
>
> That would make the problem at hand worse, not better, because you'd
> get nothing at all for cases that were too trivial to make an issue
> tracker entry for, or that the committer couldn't be bothered to go
> find in the issue tracker. We don't even have very widespread adherence
> to the cite-a-message-thread convention yet (so far as I can tell,
> Andres and I are the only committers doing it at all). Adding another
> step of bureaucracy to our processes is just going to fail miserably.
>
> regards, tom lane
>