From: | Joe Abbate <jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)com> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project |
Date: | 2011-05-30 14:52:51 |
Message-ID: | 4DE3AF43.2070900@freedomcircle.com |
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Hi Magnus,
On 05/30/2011 08:45 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> It's fine that a bug tracker *tracks* bugs. It should not control
> them. That's not how this community currently works, and a lot of
> people have said that's how they want it to stay (at least for now).
If I may belabor the point, what do you see as an example of
"controlling" the bugs? To put some context, there could be at least
three ways a bug could be closed when someone commits a patch that fixes
(or claims to fix) a bug:
a. The committer has to use a web interface to indicate the bug is closed
b. The committer has to send an email to a mail interface
c. The commit message gets routed to a mail interface that, seeing
something like "bug #1234" in the first line, automatically closes the bug
Based on the discussion so far, it's obvious that option b is more
desired than a (where the tracker is, in a sense, controlling *you*),
but is option c --while presumably more desirable since there's one less
thing to do or remember-- an instance of "control", since the tracker
takes an automatic action? Or do you want the tracker *not* to require
or take any of the actions, i.e., let someone/thing other than the
committer/commit message worry about tracking the bug's status, leaving
it up to volunteers, as Tom said?
Joe
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