Re: Is the bug system active?

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk> writes:
> > Is the bug system at:
> >     http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/
> > actively in use? I recently reported the following bug:
> >     http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/bugs.php?4~415
> > and after doing so browsed through a number of earlier bugs it appears
> > that the vast majority are still 'unassigned' and not evaluated after
> > a long period of time (like over a year)! Surely if this system is
> > being ignored it should be removed from the website...
>
> It's not being ignored, exactly --- the part of it that is actually
> useful is that bug reports entered via the webform are spit out to the
> pgsql-bugs mailing list.  Which the developers do read, and respond to.
> (I see your ecpg bug report on the list, BTW.)  But no one is
> maintaining the bug database in the sense of marking stuff done.
>
> I hadn't realized that there was a publicly-visible database attached
> to the webform, actually.  Perhaps we should not make the database
> visible, if we're not going to update it.  Vince, what do you think?

If we're not going to update it then I agree, although updating it is
rather trivial.  It's a function/feature that's already built in.  So
I guess it's your call, 'cuze it's just as trivial for me to disable
that part.

Vince.
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