Jeff Janes wrote: > For whatever it is worth, one of the frustrations I've had with projects > (other than PostgreSQL) of which I am a casual users is that reporting a > single bug meant signing up for yet another account on yet another site and > learning yet another bug tracking system.
Right. > I think the email based system is more friendly for the casual user. You > don't even have to sign up for the bugs mail list as long as people keep > you CC'ed. I don't think that having a tracker just for the sake of having > one is going to attract new contributors. Yay, another vote for debbugs! > I'd rather, say, put some more work into cleaning the kruft out of the > To-Do list, then put that effort into migrating the kruft to a fancier > filing cabinet. Casual users would need a community account in order to file bugs in the Todo wiki page. I don't think a wiki page qualifies (by a long mile) as a bug tracker, anyway. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
