On 09/25/2015 10:27 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> 2. There's no visibility for outsiders as to what issues are open or
> recently fixed. Not being outsiders, I'm not sure that we are terribly
> well qualified to describe this problem precisely or identify a good
> solution --- but I grant that there's a problem there.
>
>
> If they can perform "git log" they can view what has happened recently.
> Tracking what might happen is much harder for active contributors.
>
> I've never had a user ask me for such a list. All I here is compliments
> that our software is incredibly robust.
>
> The only time this info is required is for people that provide a Support
> service based upon PostgreSQL, yet are not themselves sufficiently
> involved to know what bugs have been reported and are as yet unfixed. I
> expect such people are extremely interested in getting other people to
> do things that will help their business.
>
> I don't see a sustainable mechanism that can support the manpower
> resources required to provide that information to those people, apart
> from become an active contributor, or pay someone who is.
I think you are thinking of this from a very small view point. In my
mind this goes way beyond a bug tracker (I assume there is a reason the
individual posted and said "issue tracker").
JD
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