Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan writes: Seriously, I have wondered if it might be a good idea to assemble a small hit team that would take some high profile open source projects and make sure they worked with Postgres. Bugzilla would be the most obvious candidate, but there are certainly others. I suspect

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:19, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andrew Dunstan writes: Seriously, I have wondered if it might be a good idea to assemble a small hit team that would take some high profile open source projects and make sure they worked with Postgres. Bugzilla would be the most

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Shridhar Daithankar writes: So forming a new group is quite beneficial? No, we don't need one group, we need many individuals (or possibly small groups) to get in contact with their second favorite projects and hang out there. I think so too.. I have been planning to do that for dbmail and

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andrew Dunstan writes: Seriously, I have wondered if it might be a good idea to assemble a small hit team that would take some high profile open source projects and make sure they worked with Postgres. Bugzilla would be the most obvious candidate, but there are

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Shridhar Daithankar writes: So forming a new group is quite beneficial? No, we don't need one group, we need many individuals (or possibly small groups) to get in contact with their second favorite projects and hang out there. I meant lets form a group within advocacy

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:42, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Shridhar Daithankar writes: I think so too.. I have been planning to do that for dbmail and egroupware but haven't got around it.. When I said I've been doing a bit of that, I meant the developers of

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan writes: Your suggestion elsewhere of pick your second favourite app is likely to result in a more scattergun approach. Also, if it had the imprimatur of the PostgreSQL community to some extent appraoches to projects might be more welcome - Dear open-source-project-manager, on

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andrew Dunstan writes: Your suggestion elsewhere of pick your second favourite app is likely to result in a more scattergun approach. Also, if it had the imprimatur of the PostgreSQL community to some extent appraoches to projects might be more welcome - Dear

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: --- Hello, My name is and I work with postgresql group. Recently we/postgresql advocay/general group have decided to form a group of people who would help other projects w.r.t postgresql. So feel free to ask me questions. I can

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-11 Thread Jan Wieck
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: --- Hello, My name is and I work with postgresql group. Recently we/postgresql advocay/general group have decided to form a group of people who would help other projects w.r.t postgresql. So feel free to ask me

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-09 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Seriously, I have wondered if it might be a good idea to assemble a small hit team that would take some high profile open source projects and make sure they worked with Postgres. Bugzilla would be the most obvious candidate, but there are certainly others. I suspect that could be quite

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:12:50PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Seriously, I have wondered if it might be a good idea to assemble a small hit team that would take some high profile open source projects and make sure they worked with Postgres. Bugzilla would be the most obvious

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: The doesn't quite make the best use of PG quote is one of the best examples of buck-passing I've seen in awhile. If Bugzilla had been designed with some thought to DB independence to start with, we'd not be having this discussion. You have to laugh at an app

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bugzilla is far from perfect. But it's getting better. FWIW, I would like to try a bugzilla-based tracking system for Postgres. Our last attempt at a tracking system failed miserably, but I think that was (a) because the software we

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-07 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The last comment on the bug page says: The Red Hat guys did a quick 'n dirty port. It works, but doesn't quite make use of the best of PostgreSQL. Also, their tarball is out of date with the current schema used by Bugzilla. The bug is actually

Re: [HACKERS] bugzilla (Was: What do you want me to do?)

2003-11-07 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
The doesn't quite make the best use of PG quote is one of the best examples of buck-passing I've seen in awhile. If Bugzilla had been designed with some thought to DB independence to start with, we'd not be having this discussion. You have to laugh at an app that actually uses MySQL's