Re: bugs and bug tracking

On 10/12/2015 07:36 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Nathan Wagner <nw+pg@hydaspes.if.org> wrote:
>> Two, I think any attempt to tell the developers and committers that they
>> need to change their workflow to adapt to some system is bound to fail,
>> so, I have asked, just what changed would you all be willing to actually
>> *do*?  Tom Lane is pretty good at noting a bug number in his commit
>> messages, for example.  Would he be willing to modify that slightly to
>> make it easier to machine parse?  Would you be willing to add a bug
>> number to your commit messages?  I'm not asking for guarantees.
>> Actually I'm not really asking for anything, I'm just trying to figure
>> out what the parameters of a solution might be.  If the answer to that
>> is "no, I'm not willing to change anything at all", that's fine, it just
>> colors what might be done and how much automation I or someone else
>> might be able to write.
> I'd personally be willing to put machine-parseable metadata into my
> commit messages provided that:
>
> 1. I'm not the only one doing it - i.e. at least 3 or 4
> moderately-frequent committers are all doing it consistently and all
> using the same format.  If Tom buys into it, that's a big plus.

I'll do whatever everybody else agrees on.

>
> 2. Adding the necessary metadata to a commit can be reasonably
> expected to take no more than 2 minutes in typical cases (preferably
> less).
>
> 3. Adding the metadata doesn't cause lines > 70 characters.  I am not
> a fan of the "Discussion: Message-ID-Here" format which some
> committers have begun using, sometimes with just the message ID and
> sometimes with the full URL, because anything which causes horizontal
> scrolling makes me sad.
>

Perhaps we need some sort of tinyurl gadget?

BTW, a very quick look at my pg mailbox shows that message IDs are 
overwhelmingly 68 chars or less, including the surrounding <>. 68 seems 
to be a fixed width for gmail generated IDs - almost everybody else's 
message IDs are a lot smaller than 68.

cheers

andrew