Re: bugs - lets call an exterminator!

I think it'd be not so difficult to extend our mailware
(fts.postgresql.org) to handle bug-list. Actually,
mailware has much more features, it's already has search/read,
track features. Adding post is trivial. Developers (who actually
fix a bugs) usually read mailing lists and reply's to BUG, which
should be automatically go to corresponding bug-thread.
Oleg
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> > Needs
>
> > easy reporting of bugs - sent to bugs list
> > easy lookup of previous bugs
> > summary of fix or workaround
> > detail of fix or work around
> > little to no intervention of
> >   developers
> > ability of developer to add
> >   comments
>
> > That should sum it up.
>
> Check.
>
> > We've had a couple of volunteers to keep the database up to date.
> > Is it enough?  I dunno, if I were to guess I'd have to look at
> > previous experience and say probably not.
>
> AFAIR, we had *zero* people paying any attention to the state of the
> bug database up to now.  A couple of people ought to make a big
> difference.
>
> > Is implementing yet another bugtool going to be the solution?
> > Probably not.  Do I want to go for number six?  No.
>
> If you're the man maintaining it then I'm certainly not going to tell
> you how to do your job.  OTOH --- it does seem like a lot of people
> like Bugzilla.  Might be worth at least a cursory look.
>
> > Here's what I propose.
>
> > The current tool has a form - we keep it.
> > The current tool mails to the bugs list - we keep it.
>
> Those are both fine.  How do we get feedback in the other direction,
> ie mailing lists to bug database?  That's the $64 question in my mind
> at the moment.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
> subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your
> message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
>
Regards,    Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83