Re: Bug tracker tool we need

On 18 April 2012 13:44, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> ... I think you'll find a lot of that data could be mined out of our
> historical commit logs already.  I know I make a practice of mentioning
> "bug #NNNN" whenever there is a relevant bug number, and I think other
> committers do too.  It wouldn't be 100% coverage, but still, if we could
> bootstrap the tracker with a few hundred old bugs, we might have
> something that was immediately useful, instead of starting from scratch
> and hoping it would eventually contain enough data to be useful.

Just as a data point, git tells me that there are 387 commits where
the commit log message matches '#\d+', and 336 where it matches 'bug
#\d+'.

Cheers,
BJ