Re: bugs and bug tracking

Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> > Perhaps it'd be better to have pgsql-bugs be the "Package owner", who
> > also gets emails about bug activity on their packages. That way, we
> > could have a 'jdbc' package whose owner is pgsql-jdbc and pgsql-bugs
> > wouldn't end up with that bug traffic (which, I believe, is what we'd
> > want...).
>
> To clarify, I mean 'Maintainer', and this would be identical to how the
> PostgreSQL packages in Debian are currently maintained:
>
> Maintainers for postgresql are Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers
> <pkg-postgresql-public(at)lists(dot)alioth(dot)debian(dot)org>.
>
> And, handily, that list is archived here:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-postgresql-public/
>
> One example of how it's used can be seen with this thread:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-postgresql-public/2015-September/002803.html

So in the pipermail interface you get the impression that after three
messages the thread stopped. But if you go to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797804
you realize that there's further traffic in the bug that wasn't sent to
the list. That's ungood.

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