Bug tracking

Bruce Momjian wrote:

I just had an idea.
My tracking of bugs is my e-mail box, and the TODO list.
Should I make a cvs-checked-in mailbox of known bug reports?

We could put BugZilla into use.

;) Clark

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

My tracking of bugs is my e-mail box, and the TODO list.
Should I make a cvs-checked-in mailbox of known bug reports?

If we're not going to put up a full-fledged bug tracking system,
that would be a simple and useful improvement to the current
state of affairs... but a BTS would be better.

regards, tom lane

The question is...which one? I'm willing to install one, but it has to be
something that everyone can use, and that means even those without GUI
capabilities.

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

My tracking of bugs is my e-mail box, and the TODO list.
Should I make a cvs-checked-in mailbox of known bug reports?

If we're not going to put up a full-fledged bug tracking system,
that would be a simple and useful improvement to the current
state of affairs... but a BTS would be better.

regards, tom lane

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

The question is...which one? I'm willing to install one, but it has to be
something that everyone can use, and that means even those without GUI
capabilities.

I think we can assume a browser, no?

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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

The question is...which one? I'm willing to install one, but it has to be
something that everyone can use, and that means even those without GUI
capabilities.

I think we can assume a browser, no?

Why? That assumes always using a Unix machine with X-Windows running, no?

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

The question is...which one? I'm willing to install one, but it has to be
something that everyone can use, and that means even those without GUI
capabilities.

I think we can assume a browser, no?

Why? That assumes always using a Unix machine with X-Windows running, no?

How about lynx? Do they suppor that? Probably not.

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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

The question is...which one? I'm willing to install one, but it has to be
something that everyone can use, and that means even those without GUI
capabilities.

I think we can assume a browser, no?

Why? That assumes always using a Unix machine with X-Windows running, no?

Huh? How do you figure?

Vince.
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What's wrong with Lynx? Keep it simple and text-based.

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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

The question is...which one? I'm willing to install one, but it has to be
something that everyone can use, and that means even those without GUI
capabilities.

I think we can assume a browser, no?

Why? That assumes always using a Unix machine with X-Windows running, no?

Or a PC with Windoze, or a Mac, or a character terminal with Lynx ...

But I agree with Marc: it'd be a good idea to ensure that someone with
only (say) email access can do at least the basic stuff of submitting
bug reports and checking on the status of bugs.

Possibly we could get away with a manual approach, at least to start
with. I suspect that the majority of users do have a web browser,
so probably only a few bug reports would still need to come via the
pgsql-bugs mailing list. If someone would volunteer to manually
transfer said reports into the tracking system, that'd handle the
email-submission problem.

Not sure what to do about the status tracking part of the problem.
But, since currently there is *no* way to track the status of bugs,
it's not like using a Web-based tracking system is going to take
anything away from email-only people that they have now.

regards, tom lane