Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5EA9FB645 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 09:33:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14940-06 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 09:33:30 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from community1.commandprompt.com (host-254.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784A89FB61C for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 09:33:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.10.103] (cpe-075-177-135-163.nc.res.rr.com [75.177.135.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by community1.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2A1246DC3; Wed, 2 May 2007 05:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4638851C.9060308@dunslane.net> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 08:33:32 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070301 Fedora/1.0.8-0.6.2.fc6 pango-text SeaMonkey/1.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Josh Berkus , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Feature freeze progress report References: <200705012309.l41N9O908241@momjian.us> <200705012151.51915.josh@agliodbs.com> <5678.1178083185@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <5678.1178083185@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/114 X-Sequence-Number: 102716 Tom Lane wrote: > So in a roundabout way we come back > to the idea that we need a bug tracker (NOT a patch tracker), plus > people putting in the effort to make sure it stays a valid source > of up-to-date info. Without the latter it won't really be useful. > > > Hallelujah Brother! BTW, a bug tracker can be used as a patch tracker, although the reverse isn't true. For example, the BZ people use BZ that way, in fact - most patches arrive as attachments to bugs. And trackers can be used just as well for tracking features as well as bugs. cheers andrew