Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Jim Nasby
On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: The searching capabilities in debbugs are, well, non-existent, which is a real problem in my mind. Well, we can set up our own indexing, like Oleg and Teodor have done in http://www.pgsql.ru/ That seems like quite a hack for something

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Marko Kreen
On 8/17/06, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Have you tried to use debbugs? If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue that line of thought. http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-debbugs@lists.debian.org/msg01266.html ( bzr get

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marko Kreen wrote: On 8/17/06, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Have you tried to use debbugs? If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue that line of thought. http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-debbugs@lists.debian.org/msg01266.html

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-22 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrew, Why are we even dabating a system when it has been reported that the authors believe it is completely unsuitable for use by the PostgreSQL project? Not *completely*. More that it would take a couple dozen hours of work to make it good for us, and the resulting version then couldn't

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Gregory Stark
Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: On the other hand, a lot of my personal dislike of BugZilla seems to be based on being forced to use old versions. A lot of the stuff I hate about it has been fixed in the current version. Does that include it being basically a web-only interface?

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I expect if you set up a web-based interface it won't be a matter of people digging in heels so much as just being indifferent to it. And like most projects the bugs will just accumulate and not get feedback. And which projects would these be? Oddly enough it might surprise you that the

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm listed on various mozilla bugs and occasionally get notifications of updates but I can't reply to those notifications and I'm not about to fire up a browser and log in and search for the bug just to add comments. It's really not that painful: every

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: On the other hand, a lot of my personal dislike of BugZilla seems to be based on being forced to use old versions. A lot of the stuff I hate about it has been fixed in the current version. Does that include it being

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm listed on various mozilla bugs and occasionally get notifications of updates but I can't reply to those notifications and I'm not about to fire up a browser and log in and search for the bug just to add comments. It's

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I wrote: I will check about Greg's complaint about race conditions in updating comments. My initial impression is that this is no longer so, but I will get a definite answer. My impression was correct. Each comment on a bug gets its own row, marked by bug-id, commenter-id and

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:20:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you tried to use debbugs? I agree with Greg Stark that it's a better fit for our current procedure, while enabling better traceability. The principal strike against debbugs seems to

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you tried to use debbugs? I agree with Greg Stark that it's a better fit for our current procedure, while enabling better traceability. The principal strike against debbugs seems to be that the source code is not readily

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Josh Berkus
All, I chatted some with some of the Debian folks who maintain Debbugs. They thought it would take a significant amount of work to adapt it to PostgreSQL, in addition to the obvious needs to improve the web interface. RT has some significant short comings for our project such as not having

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
So, the question is whether any of our biggest bug-fixers would dig in their heels and scream No! if we gave BugZilla a try. Comments? I could have this setup this weekend should we vote YES :) Joshua D. Drake ---(end of

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Let me add that most entries that illict a quick patch or TODO item do not come in through the bugs list, but are rather problems people post to ther lists, or are the result of discussions. --- Gregory Stark wrote: Andrew

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Josh Berkus
Greg, In short, it's just a tool to solve a problem we actually have (having a convenient archive of data about current and past bugs) without inventing problems to solve with extra process that we aren't already doing anyways. RT can be set up similarly but I'm not sure how much work it would

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Josh Berkus schrieb: Greg, In short, it's just a tool to solve a problem we actually have (having a convenient archive of data about current and past bugs) without inventing problems to solve with extra process that we aren't already doing anyways. RT can be set up similarly but I'm not

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs - email form from the website. Are you looking to increase the barrier for bug reporting? Any garbage (ie. spam) is generally filtered before it hits the -bugs list itself Spam: Yes.

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:48:54PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: This, however, I would find very useful - both as a -hacker and as a user. The point is that only confirmed things should be in there, so only confirmed things should be returned on searches and whatevr. (private not as in not

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs - email form from the website. Are you looking to increase the barrier for bug reporting? Any garbage (ie. spam) is generally filtered before it hits the

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings than to have to go and visit random web pages to find out if there's something I need to

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
This, however, I would find very useful - both as a -hacker and as a user. The point is that only confirmed things should be in there, so only confirmed things should be returned on searches and whatevr. (private not as in not visible to the public, but private as in

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:52:21AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Tom Lane wrote: that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable output email capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to input to it by mail. Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be described that

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:22:43PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:29 , Tom Lane wrote: So my current take on this would be that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable output email capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to input to it by

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Marshall
RT has an E-mail interface. That was one of our considerations when we used it to replace our aging trouble ticket system. What does the interface need to do? RT's is pretty flexible. Ken On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:59:46PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500,

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings than to have to go and

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:05:17PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: I've yet to see a bug tracker that doesn't make it trivial to identify bugs that were marked as invalid (ie: not a real bug). The only difference is that you actually have to mark Well, if it's invalid, it shouldn't be in

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be described that way --- and while I can't say I'm in love with it, I can deal with it. Doesn't bugzilla insist on sending you the complete bug every time? Nope, it just sends the changes/additions.

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:05:17PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: I've yet to see a bug tracker that doesn't make it trivial to identify bugs that were marked as invalid (ie: not a real bug). The only difference is that you actually have to mark Well, if it's

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Doesn't bugzilla insist on sending you the complete bug every time? Nope, it just sends the changes/additions. Other than the lack of a direct email input method, I find BZ quite usable. Josh was just complaining that its source code is a mess (dunno, haven't looked) but

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be described that way --- and while I can't say I'm in love with it, I can deal with it. Doesn't bugzilla insist on sending you the complete bug every time? Nope, it just sends

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Have you tried to use debbugs? If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue that line of thought. The searching capabilities in debbugs are, well, non-existent, which is a real problem in my mind. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Have you tried to use debbugs? If you can find up-to-date source code for debbugs, we might continue that line of thought. Josh Berkus said he'd try to talk to the Debian people at LinuxWorld -- let's see if something materializes from there.

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you tried to use debbugs? I agree with Greg Stark that it's a better fit for our current procedure, while enabling better traceability. The principal strike against debbugs seems to be that the source code is not readily available and/or isn't

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 14:10 schrieb Robert Treat: I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs - email form from the website. Are you looking to increase the barrier for bug reporting? Only a small fraction of the new posts on pgsql-bugs

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 00:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Tom Lane wrote: that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable output email capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to input to it by mail. Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be described that way ---

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:28:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 14:10 schrieb Robert Treat: I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs - email form from the website. Are you looking to increase the barrier for

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:28:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 14:10 schrieb Robert Treat: I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs - email form from the website. Are you

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:14:47AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: What we are talking about here is bug triage. Weeding out misreports, duplicates etc. is a prime part of this function. It is essential to the health of any functioning bug tracking system. All it takes is resources. Is it

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:43:12PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings than to have to go and

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread mdean
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:43:12PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Robert Treat wrote: I'm not sure I follow this, since currently anyone can email the bugs list or use the bugs - email form from the website. Are you looking to increase the barrier for bug reporting? Any garbage (ie. spam) is generally filtered before it hits the -bugs

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Gregory Stark
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What we are talking about here is bug triage. Really? We have a problem with too many bug reports and need a tool to help triage them? That's the first I've heard of that. Think about what tasks you do now and what tool would make it easier. Don't try

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gregory Stark wrote: The Debian system would be basically zero operational change. pgsql-bugs would continue to exist exactly as it does now except it would go through debbugs. Debbugs is fine and all, but they don't seem to publish their code on a regular basis. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan wrote: What we are talking about here is bug triage. I think we are actually talking about bug *tracking*. One sensible way to do this would be to have a group of suitably qualified volunteers who could perform this function on a roster basis, for, say, a week or a two at a

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: If you want the latter, the approach would be to keep pgsql-bugs and when a real issue comes up, bounce it to the bug tracker. Any subsequent email discussion should then get logged in the bug report. That's what I want. I don't want the bug tracking system to be

BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I am suggesting that. I have heard all the old discussions about not using a bugtracker, but in all fairness, I think some of us have to create critical mass and get something started. I will install anything, and everything, if you can get some

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread mdean
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I am suggesting that. I have heard all the old discussions about not using a bugtracker, but in all fairness, I think some of us have to create critical mass and get something started. I will install anything, and

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Kenneth Marshall
RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a list of features and requirements? Ken On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:59:52AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I am suggesting

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a list of features and requirements? I don't know if we ever came up with one, but I know that the

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a list of features and requirements? I don't know if we

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: RT is easy to setup/configure/use and works well with PostgreSQL as the backend. CPAN uses it for their bug tracker. Was there a list of features and requirements? I don't know if we ever came up with

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
I've used and use RT. It is web based for admin, but all the transactions are E-Mail based. http://www.bestpractical.com I can also make a test queue on my instance if someone wants to play. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
We have three candidates already -- debbugs, RT and Gnats. The first has the advantage that was written by hackers, for hackers, so it doesn't have any of the insane for end users stuff which annoys so many people around here ;-) (On the other hand it does have some web stuff for generating

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread mdean
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: We have three candidates already -- debbugs, RT and Gnats. The first has the advantage that was written by hackers, for hackers, so it doesn't have any of the insane for end users stuff which annoys so many people around here ;-) (On the other hand it does have

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Tom Lane
Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if we ever came up with one, but I know that the big deal killer for a bug tracker is that a lot of hackers don't want to be forced to use a web interface instead of email. So basically, to be accepted, a bug tracker would have to have an

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:29 , Tom Lane wrote: So my current take on this would be that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable output email capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to input to it by mail. Setting aside the email in, how would people feel about Atom or

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: that the bug tracker would have to have a reasonable output email capability, but I'd not necessarily insist on being able to input to it by mail. Red Hat's present bugzilla system could be described that way --- and while I can't say I'm in love with it, I can deal with it.

Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-15 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, These days I doubt there's anyone around the project who refuses to use a web browser at all. However, I still personally find it much more convenient to read and respond to mailing-list postings than to have to go and visit random web pages to find out if there's something I need to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:27:46PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Does that rails thing also have a bug tracker that integrates with mailing lists? IIRC the show-stopper on a bug tracker was finding one that allowed people to still use mailing lists. AFAIU the showstopper was that people

The long-lost pg_upgrade (was:Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status)

2006-08-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 04 August 2006 02:20, Josh Berkus wrote: grin Aren't I, the marketing geek, supposed to be the one whining about this? [snip] * In-place upgrades (pg_upgrade) BTW, I may get Sun to contribute an engineer for this; will get you posted. Long time no post. This statement really

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:02:36PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I think it is a combination of the two. A wiki could be used to discuss ideas for todos, it could be used to describe TODOs in actual detail, it could used (in conjunction with Trac) to be able to document dependecies for

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:02:36PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I think it is a combination of the two. A wiki could be used to discuss ideas for todos, it could be used to describe TODOs in actual detail, it could used (in conjunction with Trac) to be able to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Neil Conway napsal(a): However, is there a reason to use Trac beyond the fact that it is already setup? ISTM we only need a wiki, and don't need the other features of Trac, such as the bug tracker. I do not agree. How you determine what release fixes the bug now? We have web page and mailing

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...)

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql/browser/tags/REL8_1_4/pgsql What are you looking at Alvaro? Exactly that URL, but this wasn't there when I looked. Maybe it was being regenerated at that time? Yeah it gets regenerated every 4 hours or so. But I don't know why you are

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I do not agree. How you determine what release fixes the bug now? We have web page and mailing list for bug reporting but there is not any relation between bug, patch and release(s). I think bug tracking is necessary if we want move forward. You can completely forget the idea of having an

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Lastly if you review this thread you would see that Andrew and I had already decided to wait until after Linux World to actually propose something. It is perhaps not surprising, but most of the discussion has been focused on technologies (mailing lists, wikis,

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql/browser/tags/REL8_1_4/pgsql What are you looking at Alvaro? Exactly that URL, but this wasn't there when I looked. Maybe it was being regenerated at that time? Yeah it gets regenerated every 4 hours or so.

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: O.k. but no one is suggesting that we use Trac as a bug tracker, or at least I wasn't. All I was suggesting was the ability to help viewing of specific files as listed dependencies. I am suggesting that. I have heard all the old discussions about not using a

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Actually I'd *like* to use something better than CVSWeb, because you know what? It sucks and I'd love to have something better. I'd also I am not opposed to actually using taylor or something to do the conversion instead. I just couldn't get it to work. I think the devel version of Trac

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:16:19AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I just threw the trac out there because it was already setup. I don't care if anyone uses it or not. Nor am I suggesting that it *should* be used. Lastly if you review this thread you would see that Andrew and I had already

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:16:19AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I just threw the trac out there because it was already setup. I don't care if anyone uses it or not. Nor am I suggesting that it *should* be used. Lastly if you review this thread you would see that

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Lukas Smith
Tom Lane wrote: Yeah, the main problem I have with TODO-on-a-wiki is the question of quality control. I've been heard to complain that the TODO list consists of everything Bruce thinks is a good idea, but for the most part things don't get onto TODO without some rough consensus on the mailing

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Page
@postgresql.org Sent: 10/08/06 05:30 Subject: RE: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status Two words: House Hunting ... Yeuch. Toronto? ... will post something to -www as soon as I have something up and running ... Ok, cool. /D ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Marc, ... will post something to -www as soon as I have something up and running ... Given that JD is already pulling something into a Trac instance, why don't we just try using that? It has both an issue tracker and a wiki, and it's up and running now. When we have a firmer idea what

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 8/9/06, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't ;-) Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we want everyone's idea of a useful feature listed? I don't. Why

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Jim Nasby
First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim Nasby wrote: First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) I just noticed that the code repository on

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) I just noticed that the

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) Oh and answer Jim's

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:33 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: No, like the rest of the world, Trac has moved on from CVS ;) There is CVSTrac (www.cvstrac.org), which actually predates Trac. However, is there a reason to use Trac beyond the fact that it is already setup? ISTM we only need a wiki,

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Neil Conway wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:33 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: No, like the rest of the world, Trac has moved on from CVS ;) There is CVSTrac (www.cvstrac.org), which actually predates Trac. However, is there a reason to use Trac beyond the fact that it is already setup? ISTM

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Merlin Moncure wrote: On 8/9/06, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't ;-) Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we want everyone's idea of a

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim Nasby wrote: First, +1 on Josh B.'s point about trying out Trac, since it's already up and running. Josh D., can you just turn that on? (BTW, is trac linked off http://commandprompt.com anywhere? I had to google to find it yesterday...) On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
It seems some people like the authoritative TODO list, and others want a TODO wiki that they can add stuff to without having to get community buy-in. I have trouble seeing how the wiki doesn't just end up being a blog of ideas, but I see no harm in it as long as it is clear the items haven't

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: It seems some people like the authoritative TODO list, and others want a TODO wiki that they can add stuff to without having to get community buy-in. I have trouble seeing how the wiki doesn't just end up being a blog of ideas, but I see no harm in it as long as

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua D. Drake): Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, What happens now is that someone says they want to work on X, and the community tells them that Y might be working on it, and Y gives us a status. What happens now is: A starts working on X. 3 months pass B comes to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Christopher Browne wrote: Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua D. Drake): Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, What happens now is that someone says they want to work on X, and the community tells them that Y might be working on it, and Y gives us a status. What happens now is: A starts working on X. 3

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's a LOT of unnecessary overhead in that process: having a simple web app that lists who claimed what todo and when, any status updates if they've voluntarily provided them, and links to archive discussions, we could reduce the above to a 3-step process making it vastly

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point was, I was going to work on some todos before feature freeze. I asked about two specific todos. One of them was badly worded and one of them did not represent (except in the smallest of ways) what it actually was. Well, it's certainly the

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point was, I was going to work on some todos before feature freeze. I asked about two specific todos. One of them was badly worded and one of them did not represent (except in the smallest of ways) what it actually was.

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
What this story does do for me is reinforce the notion that it's critical for newbie developers to work in the open, getting feedback from the lists at an early stage about what they are doing. If you go off in a corner and develop a patch for a TODO item, you risk having it rejected because

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Maybe the connection is that while thinking about processes, we need to take into account the need to encourage people to get early feedback about what they are considering doing. We say that clearly in the developer's FAQ, but it seems it is not enough. I just read the developer's FAQ, and

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Maybe the connection is that while thinking about processes, we need to take into account the need to encourage people to get early feedback about what they are considering doing. We say that clearly in the developer's FAQ, but it seems it is not enough. I

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:21:41AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: From Bruce's perspective this actually doesn't add too much to the workload. Generate the link, possibly paste some archive urls into the wiki and then someone can come behind and clean up. Or better yet, if editing the TODO is

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
We now have URLs on the TODO list to the archives, and the next FAQ item is: H3 id=item1.41.4) What do I do after choosing an item to work on?/H3 PSend an email to pgsql-hackers with a proposal for what you want to do (assuming your contribution is not trivial). Working in so

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:21:41AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: From Bruce's perspective this actually doesn't add too much to the workload. Generate the link, possibly paste some archive urls into the wiki and then someone can come behind and clean up. Or better yet, if

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:31:00PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: bruce wrote: bruce wrote: OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. Let me add that anyone who has CVS commit access or wants

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am keeping URLs in the TODO list. Why don't people submit improvements to the TODO list, rather than adding more complexity by making a separate wiki for every TODO item? If no one updates the TODO item, what makes you think they are going to do somethin in a wiki?

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