Re: bugs and bug tracking - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: bugs and bug tracking
Date
Msg-id 20151007175841.GE4405@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: bugs and bug tracking  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:
> > Perhaps it'd be better to have pgsql-bugs be the "Package owner", who
> > also gets emails about bug activity on their packages.  That way, we
> > could have a 'jdbc' package whose owner is pgsql-jdbc and pgsql-bugs
> > wouldn't end up with that bug traffic (which, I believe, is what we'd
> > want...).
> 
> To clarify, I mean 'Maintainer', and this would be identical to how the
> PostgreSQL packages in Debian are currently maintained:
> 
> Maintainers for postgresql are Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers
> <pkg-postgresql-public@lists.alioth.debian.org>.
> 
> And, handily, that list is archived here:
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-postgresql-public/
> 
> One example of how it's used can be seen with this thread:
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-postgresql-public/2015-September/002803.html

So in the pipermail interface you get the impression that after three
messages the thread stopped.  But if you go to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797804
you realize that there's further traffic in the bug that wasn't sent to
the list.  That's ungood.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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