Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: pgFoundry)

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane said:
> > Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> >> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> >>> What it comes down to is that a mailing list encourages many-eyes-on-
> >>> one-bug synergy, whereas Bugzilla is designed to send a bug report to
> >>> just one pair of eyes, or at most a small number of eyes.  I haven't
> >>> used RT but I doubt it's fundamentally different.
> >
> >> Actually RT is quite different. It's very closely tied to email. You
> >> get all the updates in email and can respond to the emails and the
> >> results are archived in the ticket.
> >
> > [ shrug... ] BZ sends me email too --- for the things *it* thinks I
> > should know about.
> >
> > The basic point here is that these systems are designed on the
> > assumption that there is a small, easily identified set of people
> > who need-to-know about any given problem.  We (Postgres) have done well
> > by *not* using that assumption, and I'm not eager to adopt a
> > tool that forces us to buy into that mindset.
> >
> 
> Actually, when BZ sends you mail, it's acting on choices that you have made,
> or someone at RedHat has made for you. You have a lot of control over what
> it sends. You want all the email? Tell BZ and you should get it. By contrast
> with these fine-grained controls, a mailing list offers you one choice:
> subscribe or don't.

Right, if you classify the information coming in, you can set controls
over who sees it.  What we don't do now is any kind of classification.

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