Re: Bug tracker tool we need

Alex Shulgin <ash@commandprompt.com>

From: Alex <ash@commandprompt.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Jay Levitt <jay.levitt@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-04-17T03:26:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>
> I believe the biggest hurdle for many hackers is that in redmine,
> email is not a first class citizen. The majority of hackers are never
> going to want to go into a web interface to get something done, they
> live in VI/Emacs and the command line.
>
> One thing that redmine definitely breaks is proper handling of
> attachments in email, thus the first thing moving to redmine would
> break would be patch submission.

Right.  This is not too hard to fix, however, and I didn't suggest we
move to vanilla Redmine.  It's hackable, so we can just bash it into
shape we need (and we need a few Ruby hackers, so there's always someone
in the postgres community to fix it when it breaks, of course.)

--
Alex