X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408039FB29F for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 22:12:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12807-08 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:12:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from community1.commandprompt.com (host-130.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72EF9FA354 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 22:12:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.10.101] (cpe-024-211-165-134.nc.res.rr.com [24.211.165.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by community1.commandprompt.com (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id k831BxJ6013528 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:12:02 -0700 Message-ID: <44FA2BD7.6040208@dunslane.net> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:11:51 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060804 Fedora/1.0.4-0.5.1.fc5 SeaMonkey/1.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Eisentraut CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Greg Sabino Mullane Subject: Re: Postgres tracking - the pgtrack project References: <621fdf7c380b797f32c1ac0f7bccffd4@biglumber.com> <200609021821.29622.peter_e@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200609021821.29622.peter_e@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.135 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200609/195 X-Sequence-Number: 89724 Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > >> There are a number of reasons for this, not least of which is the >> enormous and ever-changing requirements such a system would have to >> have. >> > > >> The buildfarm is an excellent example of this. >> > > The build farm is not an example of this. There isn't any build-farm > software out there. There is, however, plenty of issue tracking > software out there. > > Just pointing that out. Have at it. I for one would rather set up > existing issue trackers and work with them. If I could just find > hardware to host it. Not that I've looked, though. > > What is more, a good bug tracking system is orders of magnitude more complex that the buildfarm. If we want something sooner rather than later, let's use something off the shelf and tailor it. cheers andrew