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

On 10/01/2015 05:10 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-10-01 11:07:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>>> On 2015-10-01 16:48:32 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> That would require people to actually use the bug form to submit the
>>>> initial thread as well of course - which most developers don't do
>>>> themselves today. But there is in itself nothing that prevents them from
>>>> doing that, of course - other than a Small Amount Of Extra Work.
>>
>>> It'd be cool if there were a newbug@ or similar mail address that
>>> automatically also posted to -bugs or so.
>>
>> I believe that's spelled pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org.
> 
> The point is that newbug would automatically assign a bug id, without
> going through the form.

if we only want that - we can trivially implement that on the mailserver
side by asking the backend database sequence for a bugid and rewriting
the subject...
But given debbugs is on the radar not sure we need it...


Stefan