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

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> writes:
>> It may very well be *worse* than that; it seems quite likely to me that if
>> an issue tracker is not being continually curated by substantially ALL of
>> its users, then you don't get any of those things.  That *is* a lot more
>> pessimistic, and considerably likely, as it's pretty certain that members
>> of our email-loving community will decline to get involved in curating
>> data in some web app.
>
> I think this is really the issue that's being studiously ignored by a
> number of participants in this thread.  Simply installing a tracker
> accomplishes diddly-squat.  Getting to a point where the information in
> the tracker is actually valid, well-organized, etc. will require a LARGE
> amount of real work, both up-front and on a continuing basis, and I do not
> see where that effort is going to come from.  Anybody who thinks it's just
> going to happen is living in a dream world.  Anybody who thinks they can
> tell other people to do it, and then it will happen, is living in an
> entire fantasy universe (unless, perhaps, they are paying said people to
> do what they want).
> I'd be feeling a lot more positive about this whole thread if any people
> had stepped up and said "yes, *I* will put in a lot of grunt-work to make
> something happen here".  The lack of any volunteers suggests strongly
> that this thread is a waste of time, just as the several similar ones
> before it have been.

Amen. +1.
-- 
Michael