Development process issues [LWN.net]

Development process issues

Posted May 3, 2011 1:20 UTC (Tue) by jberkus (subscriber, #55561)
In reply to: Development process issues by tchernobog
Parent article: New features in PostgreSQL 9.1

There are other reasons why having a public bugtracker would be a good idea. Speeding up reviewing is definitely not one of them though. New features are not bugs, and vice-versa.

We *do* have a web tool for reviewing: http://commitfest.postgresql.org

FWIW, the bugtracker thing is a longstanding PostgreSQL project issue. Unfortunately, half the contributors don't want one, and the other half can't agree on which bugtracker to use. We'll get one eventually, it's just not going to be soon.

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Development process issues

Posted May 17, 2011 21:01 UTC (Tue) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

> New features are not bugs, and vice-versa.

That's semantics. One person's bug is another person's feature, and vice-versa. Also, fixing bugs properly sometimes requires implementing new features.

Btw. AFAIK Mozilla uses Bugzilla for tracking features / roadmaps and Bugzilla has extension(s) for task time estimation & tracking if one wants to add some project management on top of it...