2011/5/31 Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com>: > All, > > Let me mention some of the reasons we as a project could use a bug > tracker which have nothing to do with actually fixing bugs. > > (1) Testing: a bug tracker could be used for beta testing instead of the > ad-hoc system I'm writing. Assuming it has the right features, of course. > > (2) User information: right now, if a user has an issue, it's very very > hard for them to answer the question "Has this already been reported > and/or fixed in a later release." This is a strong source of > frustration for business users who don't actively participate in the > community, a complaint I have heard multiple times. > > (3) Lack of a bug tracker with a web services API prevents downstream > projects (PostGIS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Django, Drupal, etc.) from linking in > PostgreSQL bug reports which affect their users. Also, because these > projects are used to bug trackers, they get confused when they need to > report a bug to us. > > (4) Because having a bug tracker is seen as standard and mainstream > among OSS projects, the fact that we don't have one is regarded as > oddball and backwards, and does result in some companies choosing not to > use PostgreSQL because we're perceived as "too weird" and > "anti-commercial". > > Where *fixing* bugs is concerned, I'm concerned that a bug tracker would > actually slow things down. I'm dubious about our ability to mobilize > volunteers for anything other than bug triage, and the fact that we > *don't* triage is an advantage in bug report responsiveness (I have > "unconfirmed" bugs for Thunderbird which have been pending for 3 years). > So I'm skeptical about bug trackers on that score. > > However, for the four non-fixing items, having some kind of bug tracker > would be a real asset to the project. I'm just not sure what kind of > bug tracker that would be. > > BTW, we talked to Debian about debbugs ages ago, and the Debian project > said that far too much of debbugs was not portable to other projects.
GNU succeed to use it, it seems: http://debbugs.gnu.org/Using.html http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs;max-bugs=100;base-order=1;bug-rev=1 > > -- > Josh Berkus > PostgreSQL Experts Inc. > http://pgexperts.com > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers