Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2015-10-01 16:48:32 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> That would require people to actually use the bug form to submit the >> initial thread as well of course - which most developers don't do >> themselves today. But there is in itself nothing that prevents them from >> doing that, of course - other than a Small Amount Of Extra Work.
> It'd be cool if there were a newbug@ or similar mail address that > automatically also posted to -bugs or so. I believe that's spelled pgsql-b...@postgresql.org. > I think it's mentioned somewhere in the commit message most of the time > - but not in an easy to locate way. If we'd agree on putting something like: > Bug: #XXX > Affected-Versions: 9.5- > Fixed-Versions: 9.3- > in commit messages that'd be a fair bit easier to get into the release notes.. As one of the people who do most of the gruntwork for release notes, I can tell you that that sort of fixed-format annotation is useless and usually annoying. I can see what branches you fixed the bug in anyway, from git_changelog's output. Actually useful information of that sort would be commentary along the lines of "The bug exists back to 8.4, but I only fixed it in 9.2 and up because <reason>." Without the <reason>, you're just adding bloat to what's already a pretty large file. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers