Re: Is the bug system active?

Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk> writes:
> Is the bug system at:
>     http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/
> actively in use? I recently reported the following bug:
>     http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/bugs.php?4~415
> and after doing so browsed through a number of earlier bugs it appears
> that the vast majority are still 'unassigned' and not evaluated after
> a long period of time (like over a year)! Surely if this system is
> being ignored it should be removed from the website...

It's not being ignored, exactly --- the part of it that is actually
useful is that bug reports entered via the webform are spit out to the
pgsql-bugs mailing list.  Which the developers do read, and respond to.
(I see your ecpg bug report on the list, BTW.)  But no one is
maintaining the bug database in the sense of marking stuff done.

I hadn't realized that there was a publicly-visible database attached
to the webform, actually.  Perhaps we should not make the database
visible, if we're not going to update it.  Vince, what do you think?

            regards, tom lane