Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:50:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I do have a modest proposal for improving things going forward. >> How about, if a commit purports to fix a particular bug, that >> we say "Fixes: https://postgr.es/m/<message-id>" in place of >> our current habit of saying "Discussion: ...".
> Wouldn't it be the same as making the effort to have a proper > "Reported-by" field for each actual bug fix then? No, that'd be additional effort on top, which I'm not sure I see a reason for. Nobody's given a plausible reason why we need a machine-readable way to identify the bug reporter's name from the commit log. And we get a fair number of reports with no name or an obvious pseudonym, too, so how would you handle that? regards, tom lane