Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project

Joe Abbate <jma@freedomcircle.com>

From: Joe Abbate <jma@freedomcircle.com>

To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Kim Bisgaard <kim+pg@alleroedderne.adsl.dk>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-05-31T16:09:27Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hola Alvaro,

On 05/31/2011 11:38 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think this would be easier if you crawled the monthly mboxen instead
> of the web archives.  It'd be preferable to use message-ids to identify
> messages rather than year-and-month based URLs.

I can capture the message-ids, as well as the message date, from
crawling the web archives.  If the tracker has some kind of web
interface, I assume a link such as

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-12/msg00046.php

would be easier to follow than

<20031205173035.GA16741@wolff.to>

unless the mboxes are stored in an easily accessible form by message-id
(i.e., outside the web archives).

Plus having the web link allows eventual tracking of messages outside of
-bugs.

Joe