Re: No Issue Tracker - Say it Ain't So!

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Szymon Lipiński <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Kam Lasater <ckl(at)seekayel(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: No Issue Tracker - Say it Ain't So!
Date: 2015-09-23 21:19:53
Message-ID: 20150923211953.GZ295765@alvherre.pgsql
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Szymon Lipiński wrote:

> Then I need to read through the emails. This is not user friendly too, as I
> need to click through the email tree, and if an email has multiple replies,
> it is usually hard not to omit some of them, as after going into a reply, I
> need to click to get to the parent mail again.

Evidently, the "flat" link is easy to miss. Give it a try.

The bug tracker is not intended as a feature-request tracker, anyway.
Those two things are very different, even if many projects just conflate
the two things.

> Personally I'd also change sending patches in emails to github pull
> requests :).

That won't happen, at least not this decade.

> ... or maybe the difference is more in the data structure, the email
> discussion is a tree (with a horrible interface to the archive) while in a
> bug tracker, the discussion is linear, and easier to follow.

FWIW in my opinion our mailing list archives interface is the best there
is --- and I disagree that the linear discussion is easy to follow,
except for trivial discussions.

--
Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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