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

On 2015-10-01 11:07:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2015-10-01 16:48:32 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> That would require people to actually use the bug form to submit the
> >> initial thread as well of course - which most developers don't do
> >> themselves today. But there is in itself nothing that prevents them from
> >> doing that, of course - other than a Small Amount Of Extra Work.
>
> > It'd be cool if there were a newbug@ or similar mail address that
> > automatically also posted to -bugs or so.
>
> I believe that's spelled pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)

The point is that newbug would automatically assign a bug id, without
going through the form.

> > I think it's mentioned somewhere in the commit message most of the time
> > - but not in an easy to locate way. If we'd agree on putting something like:
> > Bug: #XXX
> > Affected-Versions: 9.5-
> > Fixed-Versions: 9.3-
> > in commit messages that'd be a fair bit easier to get into the release notes..
>
> As one of the people who do most of the gruntwork for release notes,
> I can tell you that that sort of fixed-format annotation is useless
> and usually annoying. I can see what branches you fixed the bug in
> anyway, from git_changelog's output.

I know that I very frequently wish that information were in the commit
messages in a easily discernible way.

> Actually useful information of that sort would be commentary along the
> lines of "The bug exists back to 8.4, but I only fixed it in 9.2 and
> up because <reason>."

That should definitely be there as well, agreed.

Greetings,

Andres Freund