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From: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: mailing list redirect for bug numbers?
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:28:31 -0800
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Hi,

On 2019-01-16 13:38:55 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund ([email protected]) wrote:
> > On 2019-01-15 11:57:21 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:43 AM Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
> > > > The only big catch I see is that if someone emails -bugs directly, no
> > > > number is assigned, so we would have to leave that be.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, those would be entirely out of scope.
> > 
> > Agreed. I previously wished there were an email based interface to
> > submitting a bug, but that'd just be that, a new interface for
> > submitting a bug.
> 
> This got me wondering...  why?

Why I want it, or why I think it's out of scope?


> This discussion is all about building a mapping between a Bug# and a
> message-ID.  If we do that, why not fill it in completely?  As in, have
> a Bug# for every thread on -bugs, either the one assigned by the webpage
> or one which we assign when we see the email come in and then backfill
> that?

Well, one problem is that we can't offer the same subject based UI, at
least not trivially. We'd have to rewrite emails that aren't replies
to an existing thread to come from a different sender to have a
different subject and not fall afoul of dkim et al.

It seems pretty reasonable to do that, but not a small task, so I just
don't think it should be bundled with the, I think, smaller task of
just building the mapping. Doesn't seem like there'd be a lot of
wasted effort by doing these separately.


Greetings,

Andres Freund

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