Re: Getting a bug tracker for the Postgres project

On fre, 2011-06-03 at 16:42 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Just to throw out a crazy idea, there has been talk of bug ids.  What
> if a thread, made up of multiple message ids, was in fact the bug id,
> and the first message in the thread (ignoring month boundaries) was
> the definitive bug id, but any of the message ids could be used to
> represent the definitive one.

That way, if someone breaks a thread, you can't reattach the
conversation to a bug.  And you couldn't take a thread off a bug or to a
new bug.

A heavily email-based tracker such as debbugs works almost like that,
but for those mentioned reasons, it's simpler to have the messages
belonging to a bug stored separately.