On 2019-Feb-03, Nathan Wagner wrote: > If the bug seemed to be either an actual bug or something that would > have actual work done, I marked these as open. It's entirely probable > that some or most of these are actually fixed. There were a number > of cases where committers emailed in a "will fix" type message, but > I don't have any indication that this was actually done.
Yeah, this is pretty common and unhelpful. We should reply to the mailing list with a commit ID or something. > I have used the regex /Fixes bug #([0-9]+)/ to automatically look for > commits purporting to fix bugs by number. Let's use that. > > ... and we probably want to > > piggyback on our archives rather than having its own copy of the emails. > > I sort of do both. The pgbugs list is processed on my server via > procmail and a perl script, so I have a copy of the emails, but > the links for each email point back to the archives, rather than > my copy. Hmm. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
