From: Alex <ash@commandprompt.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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>
Subject: Re: Bug tracker tool we need
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:15:10 +0300
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:

> One thing to note is that the referenced wiki page is over a year old.
> And that many more things have been said on email lists than are
> actually in that page.

Yeah, I went through it briefly and rather important concern seem to
have been raised by Tom Lane in this msg:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-05/msg01480.php

This paragraph:

> The real question is, who is going to keep it up to date?  GSM has the
> right point of view here: we need at least a couple of people who are
> willing to invest substantial amounts of time, or it's not going to go
> anywhere.  Seeing that we can barely manage to keep the mailing list
> moderator positions staffed, I'm not hopeful.

> But as one note - I don't believe you can drive redmine completely
> from email, which is certainly a requirement that has been discussed,
> but is not entirely listed on that page.

Ugh, what do you mean by that?  You can change any attribute (like
status, priority, assigned person, etc.) of a ticket via email.
Anything else?

> FWIW, I think the closest thing we've found so far would be debbugs -
> which IIRC doesn't have any kind of reasonable database backend, which
> would be a strange choice for a project like ours :) And makes many
> things harder...

What stops us from writing a postgres backend for debbugs if it is so
brilliant on handing email and stuff?

--
Alex