Re: What do you want me to do? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | Robert Treat |
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Subject | Re: What do you want me to do? |
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Msg-id | 1068491363.10944.12651.camel@camel Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: What do you want me to do? (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>) |
List | pgsql-hackers |
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 18:37, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > >On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:28, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >>>On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > >>>>I know most people have talked about using bugzilla, but is anyone > >>>>familiar with GNATS? I'm currently rereading Open Sources and there's a > >>>>paragraph or two mentioning it's use and the fact that it can be > >>>>interfaced with completely by email. > >>>> > >>>FreeBSD uses it almost exclusively and it supports email interaction with > >>>the database, but I don't think there are very many good GUI front ends > >>>for it (or, at least, not that I've seen) ... > >>> > >>No. > > > >personal axe to grind? > > > > er, no. I was only agreeing with Marc about GUI interfaces. What axe to > grind do you imagine I could have? sorry, i just wondered because you gave a one word response dismissing the idea and moved on... > > >I've never used it, but it's been around a long > >time, allows for interaction completely through email (which is how we > >do things now), has a web front end for anyone who wants to use it to > >use, and as i understand it has a tcl based desktop app for folks to use > >as well. seems it's being dismissed prematurely imho. > > > Every person wishing to submit a bug will have to have send-pr installed > or else we'll get lots of reports not broken up into fields. That > doesn't sound like a recipe for success to me. > not really... we can still have a web interface to it, so anyone submitting a bug could use the web interface. now maybe for regular folks working on bugs this would be an issue.. don't know, i'm not familiar send-pr... > > > >>A few other thoughts: > >>. the Samba team have apparently abandoned their own tool and moved to > >>bugzilla > >>. 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) > >>. it would seem slightly strange to me for an RDBMS project to use a bug > >>tracking system that was not RDBMS-backed > >> > >> > > > >we serve far more static pages on the website than we do database driven > >ones... > > > *nod* but there has been talk of moving to bricolage, hasn't there? > if only because it outputs static content... > >the software we distribute is housed on fileservers and sent via > >ftp, we dont expect people to store and retrieve it from a database... > > > > you're reaching now ... > > >our mailing lists software actually uses another db product in fact... > >let's just get the right tool for the job... > > > > Yes. I agree. Bugs (including enhancements) strike me as a classic case > of data that belongs in a database. > i think it's something that needs to be searchable, whether that requires "the worlds most powerful open source object relational database management system" is something else entirely ;-) > > > > > >>. developers are far more likely to be familiar with bugzilla > > > >developers are far more likely to be familiar with windows and mysql as > >well... > > > > c'mon ... > your strawman meets my strawman... > > > >>. are there any active developers without web access? If not, why is > >>pure email interaction important? > >> > > > >for the same reason mailing lists work better than message boards... > >it's just easier. i'm much more likely to read an email list the scroll > >through web forms, and if i am going to respond to a bug report, i'm > >much mroe likely to if i can hit "reply" and start typing than if i have > >to fire up a browser to do it. > > > > Tom explicitly said he *didn't* want a system where email poured > straight into the bugtrack db. > Which I find odd since thats essentially the system we have now... > Yes, it is a different way of doing things, and it takes getting used to. > > > > >>Bugzilla is far from perfect. But it's getting better. > >> > > > >don't get me wrong, i like bugzilla and all, but theres no need to put > >blinders on... > > > > I don't. But I do think the current processes can stand improvement. > right... i think gnats is one way of doing that. bugzilla is decent, it just doesn't seems as advanced as gnats which is why i brought it up... we don't need to beat it to death though, I think tom has fixed more bugs than me recently so if he is interested in bugzilla i'm all for giving it a twirl... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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