> On 09/30/2015 03:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>>> On 09/30/2015 03:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> I'd be feeling a lot more positive about this whole thread if any people
>>>> had stepped up and said "yes, *I* will put in a lot of grunt-work to make
>>>> something happen here". The lack of any volunteers suggests strongly
>>>> that this thread is a waste of time, just as the several similar ones
>>>> before it have been.
>>
>>> Hmmm? Frost volunteered to stand up debbugs.
>>
>> So he did, and did anyone volunteer to put data into it, or to do ongoing
>> curation of said data? If we simply connect it up to the mailing lists,
>> and then stand back and wait for magic to happen, we will not ever have
>> anything that's any more useful than the existing mailing list archives.
On 10/01/2015 01:49 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Well, it's hard for anyone to volunteer when we don't know what the
>> actual volunteer tasks are. I certainly intend to do *something* to
>> support the bug tracker system, but I don't know yet what that something is.
>
> I volunteer to do something too, as long as I don't have to click on
> endless web forms.
>
I volunteer to help populate the new tracker from whatever from the
currently exists in, and will also put into action any reasonable
scraping/augmentation ideas put forth to make it a more productive tool.
Amir
