X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D43D1D2BA for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 04:04:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20975-10 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:04:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from smtp.istop.com (dci.doncaster.on.ca [66.11.168.194]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56ACDD1CC8D for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:04:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from stark.xeocode.com (gsstark.mtl.istop.com [66.11.160.162]) by smtp.istop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D3017C4DF; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:04:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=stark.xeocode.com) by stark.xeocode.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Awvhu-0005JU-00; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:04:06 -0500 To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Collaboration Tool Proposal References: <200402260912.54001.josh@agliodbs.com> <200402262210.21836.josh@agliodbs.com> <17173.1077862747@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200402262311.14871.josh@agliodbs.com> <403F5444.9080305@dunslane.net> In-Reply-To: <403F5444.9080305@dunslane.net> From: Greg Stark Organization: The Emacs Conspiracy; member since 1992 Date: 27 Feb 2004 23:04:06 -0500 Message-ID: <8765drg895.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200402/933 X-Sequence-Number: 50522 Andrew Dunstan writes: > Email interface: it should not be beyond the wit of man to provide some level > of email interface to any reasonable bug tracking system. Whether or not it is > worth doing depends on the demand. Two obvious places for it would be 1) to > allow initial logging of a bug via email, and 2) periodically run query 'foo' > and email me the results. Getting a once a day digest of new bug reports might > be quite nice in fact. Actually none of these are quite the most important. I think the most important aspect of the email interface is being able to submit additional information on a bug. I find it frustrating to receive an email saying "user foo said foo" and not be able to hit reply to send a response. Instead I have to start a browser, click a link in the email, log in with a username and password, ... If something sends me an email it should expect me to respond in the same medium. -- greg