Re: PostgreSQL's bug tracker

Why not something like Mantis bug tracker? (http://www.mantisbt.org)

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Stuart Bishop
Sent: Jueves, 13 de Octubre de 2005 01:42 a.m.
To: Greg Stark
Cc: Neil Conway; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's bug tracker

Greg Stark wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>>I think debbugs is fairly close to what we'd need, for reasons stated
>>earlier:
>>
>>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-05/msg01156.php
>>
>>(I think Bugzilla is *completely* the wrong tool for the Postgres
>>development model.)
>>
>>I've heard vague comments from Debian people that the debbugs code is
>>kind of evil, although I haven't confirmed that myself. Writing a system
>>like this from scratch would not be much work, anyway...

The bug tracker component of Launchpad (aka Malone) is heavily influenced by
debbugs, and under active and rapid development.

https://launchpad.net/products/pgsql/+bugs

Its designed to allow tracking of bugs both in the 'upstream' sourcecode,
forks and commercial varients, and in the packages distributed by OS
vendors.

Developers hang out in #launchpad on freenode.net

> Well in fact debbugs was rewritten from scratch not long ago. They added
lots
> of new features and presumably made the code less evil. I suppose that's a
big
> presumption though :)
>
> I agree that it would be a good match though. There's an email interface
for
> everything and a number of debian packages use a mailing list as the
primary
> contact which is how I imagine Postgres developers would like things set
up.

Current email interface documentation for Malone is on our wiki at
https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/MaloneEmailInterfaceUserDoc

We use it internally the way you describe.

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