Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project
Date: 2011-06-03 21:23:03
Message-ID: 1307136183.32120.14.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On fre, 2011-06-03 at 16:42 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Just to throw out a crazy idea, there has been talk of bug ids. What
> if a thread, made up of multiple message ids, was in fact the bug id,
> and the first message in the thread (ignoring month boundaries) was
> the definitive bug id, but any of the message ids could be used to
> represent the definitive one.

That way, if someone breaks a thread, you can't reattach the
conversation to a bug. And you couldn't take a thread off a bug or to a
new bug.

A heavily email-based tracker such as debbugs works almost like that,
but for those mentioned reasons, it's simpler to have the messages
belonging to a bug stored separately.

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