Re: No Issue Tracker - Say it Ain't So!

On 09/23/2015 05:21 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Do you think it would make any sense to consider evolving what we have
> already? At the moment, we have a bug form, and when you submit it it
> does this (if I'm looking at the right thing, please correct me if I'm
> not):
>
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=blob;f=pgweb/misc/views.py
>
> That is, the database interaction is limited to using a SEQUENCE to
> generate a new bug ID, and then an email is sent to pgsql-bugs. What
> if we also created a bug record for that ID to track its status, and
> allowed anyone with a community account to edit the bug record and
> change the status? There could be a simple page that lets you see and
> search for bugs, with a link to the flat mail archive thread where
> discussion is held. All actual discussion would continue on mailing
> lists. That would be similar to the commitfest.
>
> I suppose some forms of cross-reference would also be useful: when
> viewing the bug's page, you might want to see any commitfest items or
> pgsql-committers messages that relate to that bug. Perhaps we could
> automatically create those links when bug IDs are recognised in those
> messages, so that no extra workflow/maintenance is required in

It would be nice if you could essentially promote a bug into a
commitfest item, maybe through a status change.

> straightforward cases. To continue that line of thinking it would
> also be possible for bug statuses to be changed when certain words are
> spotted in either commit messages (which doesn't have to be a commit
> hook, it could be taken from pgsql-committers messages) or pgsql-bugs
> messages.
>
> Cf github commit message parsing:
> https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages/

I was thinking along the same lines. If we could paste a bug reference
number into the commit message and have that change the bug status it
would go a long way to making this workable I think.

Joe

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