Re: Bug tracking (was Re: +/- Inf for float8's)

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Tom Lane writes:
> 
> > (a) a bug *tracking* system is not the same as a bug *reporting*
> > system.  A tracking system will be useless if it gets cluttered
> > with non-bug reports, duplicate entries, etc.  There must be a human
> > filter controlling what gets entered into the system.
> 
> Letting any user submit bug reports directly into any such system is
> certainly not going to work, we'd have "query does not use index" 5 times
> a day. I consider the current *reporting* procedure pretty good; web forms
> are overrated in my mind.
> 
> What I had in mind was more a databased incarnation of the TODO list. I
> mean, who are we kidding, we are writing a database and maintain the list
> of problems in flat text. The TODO list has already moved to the
> TODO.detail extension, but we could take it a bit further.
> 
> I think currently too many issues get lost, or discussed over and over
> again. Many developers maintain their own little lists. The TODO list
> often cannot be deciphered by end users and hence does not get read.

A TODO list that one can add comments to ...