Re: bug tracking system

On 2019-Feb-03, Nathan Wagner wrote:

> If the bug seemed to be either an actual bug or something that would
> have actual work done, I marked these as open. It's entirely probable
> that some or most of these are actually fixed. There were a number
> of cases where committers emailed in a "will fix" type message, but
> I don't have any indication that this was actually done.

Yeah, this is pretty common and unhelpful. We should reply to the
mailing list with a commit ID or something.

> I have used the regex /Fixes bug #([0-9]+)/ to automatically look for
> commits purporting to fix bugs by number.

Let's use that.

> > ... and we probably want to
> > piggyback on our archives rather than having its own copy of the emails.
>
> I sort of do both. The pgbugs list is processed on my server via
> procmail and a perl script, so I have a copy of the emails, but
> the links for each email point back to the archives, rather than
> my copy.

Hmm.

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