Re: PostgreSQL's bug tracker

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, J B <jbwellsiv(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL's bug tracker
Date: 2005-10-11 01:28:29
Message-ID: 434B153D.6060805@commandprompt.com
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>>> IIRC the last time this was brought up it was violently shot-down on
>>> -hackers (and the fact that bugzilla didn't directly support PostgreSQL
>>> back then had nothing to do with it).
>>>
>
>> Yep, but you never know. Someday it just may happen. The community
>> got Linus to stop using his email box for patches, maybe someday we
>> will get there too.
>
>
> Just as a suggestion/thought ... *if* you have the resources (or
> someone else wants to step up to it), why not setup the bug tracker,
> work with the -www guys on having the 'bug submission' stuff feed into
> it, and get a liason in place between it and -hackers? put the
> structure into place, get ppl used to submitting/using it, and over
> time, it might be easier to get the developers themselves to use it vs
> having a middle man?
>
> There may be some developers that will go over relatively easily
> *once* its in place, and others that stay resistent to it for awhile ...

I have thought about that, however I would at least at some level want a
blessing. For example, if we did that would we do it with
pgFoundry bug tracking? Or would we use Trac? Or Bugzilla?

If we got some interest in a particular direction then I bet some people
(including us) would step up.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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