> . if we used bugzilla this might give some impetus to the bugzilla team's > efforts to provide pg as a backend (maybe we could help with that)
I would actually suggest trying RT. It's not primarily a bug tracking system and there's a bit of an impedance mismatch between a trouble ticketing system and a bug tracking system. But there would be a few advantages. RT has a big non-open-source-developer user-base. There are a lot of big businesses using it for enterprise-class trouble-ticketing. Currently it supports Postgres for a backend but a lot of the queries perform terribly. The combination means Postgres makes a lot of bad impressions. There are continually threads on the RT mailing lists about how to migrate an RT installation to MySQL because Postgres isn't scaling up enough and MySQL performs better. And these people aren't wrong, it does for RT because the queries were originally written for MySQL. If postgres ran RT these queries would probably get cleaned up rapidly. And with optimized queries Postgres would undoubtedly scale better than MySQL to large installations. > . are there any active developers without web access? If not, why is pure > email interaction important? Because web-only access to bug reports is a sure way to get them ignored. You're depending on developers periodically checking some web page. I can barely remember to check slashdot and news.google.com once a day, nevermind the 50 bug pages for the various projects I'm subscribed to mailing lists for. In any case both bugzilla and RT support mail notifications with the full content of the changes, so that's pretty irrelevant. I think RT has more mail integration because it's often used for trouble ticketing systems where e-mail is the only published interface, but I'm not sure. PS: Another option is the Debian bug tracking system, which was rewritten recently and is pretty neat. It's 100% mail driven with web pages to do various searches and display bugs. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
