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

On 10/01/2015 08:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> On 2015-10-01 11:07:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> I'm inclined to think that commit messages are not really the right medium
> for that at all. Commit messages ought to be primarily text for
> consumption by humans. If we had a tracker, I think that it would be the
> place for fixed-format metadata, such as "fixed in version(s) x,y,z" and
> "fixed by commit(s) aaa,bbb,ccc". Expecting the tracker to link to the
> commit rather than vice versa would also solve a bunch of other problems
> like assigned-after-the-fact bug numbers. Not to mention plain old
> mistakes: once committed, a log message is immutable, but a tracker could
> be updated as needed.

What I imagined was this:

TGL commits foo, part of the commit message says: Status: Committed.
Then a commit hook is fired from git to the tracker from a fixed
address, That message would say:

Git commit $hash
Status: Committed

Which would not only link to the specific commit but also automatically
close the ticket with a status of Committed. Does that make sense for
-hackers? It seems like it would take a load off but I am not the one in
it every day.

>
> If this process actually works, I could see the tracker becoming the
> source material for generating release notes, at least for bug-fix
> notes. We do it off the commit log now because that's all we've got,
> but the log isn't really ideal source material.

Yep.

>
> regards, tom lane
>

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