Re: What do you want me to do? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: What do you want me to do?
Date
Msg-id 3FAC007D.9030904@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: What do you want me to do?  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: What do you want me to do?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: What do you want me to do?  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Re: What do you want me to do?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Treat wrote:
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>>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.
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>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) ...
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No.

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
. developers are far more likely to be familiar with bugzilla
. are there any active developers without web access? If not, why is 
pure email interaction important?

Bugzilla is far from perfect. But it's getting better.

cheers

andrew



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