On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:07, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > > On 05/31/2011 04:01 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> >> On mån, 2011-05-30 at 22:43 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >>> >>> One of the conclusions the study group came to was that there should >>> be good integration between the tracker system and the SCM. That was >>> in the days before distributed SCMs were common, and in a commercial >>> context, so I'm not sure how well our reasoning would stand up for the >>> current context, but I see it's been mentioned elsewhere and I think >>> it's a significant consideration, at least. >> >> What kind of functionality would (good) SCM integration provide? >> > > > Well, the most obvious one is that when a commit (or merge or push) is made > that fixes a bug, the bug is annotated and its status updated. I know I've > wasted plenty of time in the past first hunting for bugs and then hunting > for the fixes, which aren't always clear from the commit messages.
As long as we properly track email, we don't actually need a direct integration with the SCM for this - since we send the commit message out to the -committers list anyway, we just need to pick it up there. > In a more centralized system you can also have fairly tightly integrated > workflow (e.g. you can have the tracker open a branch when a bug is > assigned, and you can prevent one being created without an issue being > assigned) but that doesn't seem like such a good fit for us, nor for anyone > using a distributed system like git. You could also argue that it's a bad > thing for commercial organizations, but that's a debate for another place. > The reason we wanted such a thing is that we were spending significant time > managing the workflow issues, and doing tidy up. Yeah, that does sound like a very bad idea *for us*. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers