Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-06-03T20:36:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > That doesn't mean that better integration cannot be worked on later, but
> > this illusion that a bug tracker must have magical total awareness of
> > the entire flow of information in the project from day one is an
> > illusion and has blocked this business for too long IMO.
> 
> If it has only a partial view of the set of bugs being worked on, it's
> not going to meet the goals that are being claimed for it.

The problem with a bug tracker that only tracks some bugs is that people
will mistakenly believe the system is complete, when it is not.

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