Hi Greg, On 05/29/2011 10:26 PM, Greg Stark wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Joe Abbate <j...@freedomcircle.com> wrote: >> Anyone interested in the tracker, please visit >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/TrackerDiscussion and add your >> feedback/input. > > I think this illustrates exactly what we *don't* want to happen with a > bug tracker. We want the discussion to stay *here* not on some other > medium accessible only through the web and editable only through a web > interface....
I have no problem keeping the discussion here, but I thought perhaps not everyone on -hackers wanted to see the discussion (there was a -tracker list that became defunct, according to the page--don't know if people want to resurrect it). > Also your summary seems to have missed the point on the "has email > interface" requirement. The table of features you listed has just > "Creation of bugs via mail interface" as the only feature that is > accessible from email. My summary is in the section titled "Discussion Points" (and it was not meant to be all-inclusive). The second section, titled "Previous Content" was there before and I didn't want to eliminate it entirely. You're referring to the second section. > I'm not sure what Robert meant but I suspect he meant what I would > want which is the ability to add comments, close bugs, set other > properties, etc. By email. My biggest gripe about bugzilla was that it > sent you an email with updates to the bug but you couldn't respond to > that email. > > My ideal bug tracker is the debian one which basically stays out of > your way and lets you cc any message to a specific bug at > n...@bugs.debian.org which archives that message in the bug and sends > it to anyone listening to the bug. And you can have control commands > to close it or edit it -- basically making all our existing "that's > not a bug bleah bleah" messages into "close nnn; that's not a bug > bleah bleah" messages. I see that a full interface is very desirable to you (and others). That confirms the order of my summary list of requirements (mail interface is listed before web interface). I'll admit that I became interest in assisting with this effort due to the latter rather than the former, but I don't mind carrying the ball forward, for now. All the best, Joe -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
