Re: bug tracking system

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Nathan Wagner <nw+pg(at)hydaspes(dot)if(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug tracking system
Date: 2019-02-08 00:25:38
Message-ID: 20190208002538.GG19742@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 12:20:35AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> No, that'd be additional effort on top, which I'm not sure I see
> a reason for. Nobody's given a plausible reason why we need
> a machine-readable way to identify the bug reporter's name from
> the commit log. And we get a fair number of reports with no name
> or an obvious pseudonym, too, so how would you handle that?

Hm. Or just rely on Backpatch-through? A decent bug tracker usually
displays nicely what are the versions impacted, so this field should
be parsed anyway.
--
Michael

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