Re: bug tracking system

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 12:20:35AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> No, that'd be additional effort on top, which I'm not sure I see
> a reason for.  Nobody's given a plausible reason why we need
> a machine-readable way to identify the bug reporter's name from
> the commit log.  And we get a fair number of reports with no name
> or an obvious pseudonym, too, so how would you handle that?

Hm.  Or just rely on Backpatch-through?  A decent bug tracker usually
displays nicely what are the versions impacted, so this field should
be parsed anyway.
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Michael