From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org>,
        Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>,
        Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
        "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>,
        PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: mailing list redirect for bug numbers?
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Comments: In-reply-to Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:28 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>> Uhhh, no, the point here was to assign bug numbers for emails to -bugs
>> which *don't* go through the bugs form and therefore didn't have the bug
>> number info in the message.

> Without having the ability to properly merge bugs and to structured cross
> referencing and such, I think that's a really bad idea. That's going to
> cause more problems than it's fixing.

Agreed.  If we have bug numbers assigned to messages that aren't bugs,
or are replies to bugs, it's just going to be a mess.

			regards, tom lane