Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Tom Lane said: > > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> What it comes down to is that a mailing list encourages many-eyes-on- > >>> one-bug synergy, whereas Bugzilla is designed to send a bug report to > >>> just one pair of eyes, or at most a small number of eyes. I haven't > >>> used RT but I doubt it's fundamentally different. > > > >> Actually RT is quite different. It's very closely tied to email. You > >> get all the updates in email and can respond to the emails and the > >> results are archived in the ticket. > > > > [ shrug... ] BZ sends me email too --- for the things *it* thinks I > > should know about. > > > > The basic point here is that these systems are designed on the > > assumption that there is a small, easily identified set of people > > who need-to-know about any given problem. We (Postgres) have done well > > by *not* using that assumption, and I'm not eager to adopt a > > tool that forces us to buy into that mindset. > > > > Actually, when BZ sends you mail, it's acting on choices that you have made, > or someone at RedHat has made for you. You have a lot of control over what > it sends. You want all the email? Tell BZ and you should get it. By contrast > with these fine-grained controls, a mailing list offers you one choice: > subscribe or don't.
Right, if you classify the information coming in, you can set controls over who sees it. What we don't do now is any kind of classification. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
