Re: PostgreSQL's bug tracker

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> 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?

I think the main thing that's killed previous proposals in this line
is that we could never get a consensus on which bug tracker to use.
Personally I'd be OK with Bugzilla, since I use it at Red Hat already,
but I know that some hate it violently.

There are also a set of issues involved in integrating any such project
with the pgsql-bugs list, which in the estimation of many of us is not
broken and does not need fixing.

Old-timers will recall that we already had one bad experience with an
early open-source bug tracker, which has left people a bit shy of the
concept too. I think a large part of that had to do with confusion
between the purposes of bug *reporting* and bug *tracking*. A mailing
list does very well for reporting issues that might be bugs, but not so
well for tracking the status of acknowledged bugs.

regards, tom lane