Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-12-26 Thread Dave Page
It's rumoured that David Fetter once said: I guess that's OK, but it shows up like a beacon to all kinds of hostile gear. Passive systems are usually a better bet. Are there many hostile forces in your hallway? :-) /D ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-12-26 Thread David Fetter
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:48:20AM -, Dave Page wrote: It's rumoured that David Fetter once said: I guess that's OK, but it shows up like a beacon to all kinds of hostile gear. Passive systems are usually a better bet. Are there many hostile forces in your hallway? Most days not,

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-12-25 Thread David Fetter
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: The worst was my upstairs hallway that had no light fixtures, so late at night if no other lights were on in the house, you had to walk down the hallway with your hands out in front of you so you didn't bump

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-10 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 18:37, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Robert Treat wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:28, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: I know most people have talked about using bugzilla, but is anyone familiar with GNATS? I'm currently

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: What we could use instead is for someone knowledgeable to commit to transferring *valid* emailed bug reports into the tracking system. Bruce could do that if he wants, but there are surely dozens of other people who would be qualified to handle this task. I don't think we

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-08 Thread Dave Cramer
I think we should use the best tool available, he is more than willing to allow open source projects to use it for free. Dave On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:19, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Cramer wrote: Jira is a fantastic bug tracking project management system

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think we need decicated bug transferrers. Typically, when someone reports a problem by email, the first step is that some developer or other expert responds (unless the reporter gets blown away by fellow users as clueless :-)). So the

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-08 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing.jsp I have no particular opinion on whether to use a free or non-free system to track bugs, but I'd like to recommend RT as being a very capable and useful program. It has been used to track Perl 5 and CPAN bugs for some time now, and it happens to

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-08 Thread Rod Taylor
I still think it would be a good idea to have one or two people actively in charge of the overall health of the bug repository --- cross-linking duplicate bugs, making sure fixed bugs get closed out, in general correcting misinformation when they find it. This wouldn't be a large I think

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-08 Thread ow
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing.jsp Another option is free open source Scarab, http://scarab.tigris.org Actually, I'd prefer it. __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think we need decicated bug transferrers. Typically, when someone reports a problem by email, the first step is that some developer or other expert responds (unless the reporter gets blown away by fellow users as clueless

[HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Here are the major things I do for the PostgreSQL project. Are there some items I should be doing more/less of? o Patches o TODO/FAQ o Email discussion, coordination o Win32 o Talks o Books/articles o Web site cleanup o

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:16:23PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: Here are the major things I do for the PostgreSQL project. Are there some items I should be doing more/less of? o Patches o TODO/FAQ o Email discussion, coordination o Win32 o Talks o

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: Here are the major things I do for the PostgreSQL project. Are there some items I should be doing more/less of? o Patches o TODO/FAQ o Email discussion, coordination o Win32 o Talks o Books/articles

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera wrote: I don't have an opinion on the Win32 issue. I do :-) I think the most important thing for Win32 is for you to set the direction somewhat (i.e. in more detail than is on your win32 page) and then jump on Joshua's offer of a dedicated developer (possibly two) to work on

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: Here are the major things I do for the PostgreSQL project. Are there some items I should be doing more/less of? o Patches o TODO/FAQ o Email discussion, coordination o Win32 o Talks

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: o TODO/FAQ The FAQ might as well be maintained just like the rest of the documentation, i.e., by the development group as a whole. The TODO list could be replaced by a kind of bug-tracking system with developer write access only, so developers could keep their

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: Here are the major things I do for the PostgreSQL project. Are there some items I should be doing more/less of? o Patches o TODO/FAQ o Email discussion,

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian writes: o TODO/FAQ The FAQ might as well be maintained just like the rest of the documentation, i.e., by the development group as a whole. I encourage others to commit to the FAQ.html file in CVS. The only unique thing I do is to generate the

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:00, Bruce Momjian wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian writes: o TODO/FAQ The FAQ might as well be maintained just like the rest of the documentation, i.e., by the development group as a whole. I encourage others to commit to the FAQ.html file

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:00, Bruce Momjian wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian writes: o TODO/FAQ The FAQ might as well be maintained just like the rest of the documentation, i.e., by the development group as a

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: The worst was my upstairs hallway that had no light fixtures, so late at night if no other lights were on in the house, you had to walk down the hallway with your hands out in front of you so you didn't bump into anything. We had a nightlight in the

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: I know most people have talked about using bugzilla, but is anyone familiar with GNATS? I'm currently rereading Open Sources and there's a paragraph or two mentioning it's use and the fact that it can be interfaced with

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Christopher Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: The worst was my upstairs hallway that had no light fixtures, so late at night if no other lights were on in the house, you had to walk down the hallway with your hands out in front of you so you didn't bump into anything. We

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: The worst was my upstairs hallway that had no light fixtures, so late at night if no other lights were on in the house, you had to walk down the hallway with your hands out in front of you so you didn't bump into

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bugzilla is far from perfect. But it's getting better. FWIW, I would like to try a bugzilla-based tracking system for Postgres. Our last attempt at a tracking system failed miserably, but I think that was (a) because the software we tried was really

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: I don't have an opinion on the Win32 issue. I do :-) I think the most important thing for Win32 is for you to set the direction somewhat (i.e. in more detail than is on your win32 page) and then jump on Joshua's offer of a dedicated

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Alessio Bragadini
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:07, Tom Lane wrote: FWIW, I would like to try a bugzilla-based tracking system for Postgres. Red Hat has been using a PG-based version of bugzilla for some time. I'm not sure what the holdup is in getting that work merged back upstream, but I'd sure like to see it

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Greg Stark
. if we used bugzilla this might give some impetus to the bugzilla team's efforts to provide pg as a backend (maybe we could help with that) I would actually suggest trying RT. It's not primarily a bug tracking system and there's a bit of an impedance mismatch between a trouble ticketing

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:07:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Actually, whatever software we pick to run the tracking system, my guess is that the experiment will not stand or fall on the software. What we need for success is one or two people who will take responsibility for housekeeping: putting

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:28, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: I know most people have talked about using bugzilla, but is anyone familiar with GNATS? I'm currently rereading Open Sources and there's a paragraph or two mentioning

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Dave Cramer
Jira is a fantastic bug tracking project management system and is available free of charge for open source projects. http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/ Dave On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:48, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:07:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Actually, whatever

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Treat wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:28, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: I know most people have talked about using bugzilla, but is anyone familiar with GNATS? I'm currently rereading Open Sources and there's a

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Dave Cramer wrote: Jira is a fantastic bug tracking project management system and is available free of charge for open source projects. http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/ Wow, that looks very cool indeed! And they are Aussies to boot! :-) cheers andreew

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bugzilla already does email output (ie, notify you of changes to bug entries you're interested in) well enough. We thought during the last go-round that it was important to have email input so we could allow mail to pgsql-bugs to go directly into the tracking system, but in

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bugzilla is far from perfect. But it's getting better. FWIW, I would like to try a bugzilla-based tracking system for Postgres. Our last attempt at a tracking system failed miserably, but I think that was (a)

Re: [HACKERS] What do you want me to do?

2003-11-07 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Cramer wrote: Jira is a fantastic bug tracking project management system and is available free of charge for open source projects. Wow, that looks very cool indeed! And they are Aussies to boot! :-) But they don't seem to be on the