What are bugs? Are bugs really work items?

[Joel Peshkin]

Christopher Hicks wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Joel Peshkin wrote:
>
>> I think that our position towards feature bloat caused by people who 
>> stick around to maintain the feature should be very different from 
>> our position towards features from people who just want to contribute 
>> a feature to HEAD and walk away.
>
>
> I've been here for years and I can't even get a PK on one table.  I 
> suppose when I'm an 80 year old rotting corpse begging for following 
> simple concepts of relational database design I'll have met your 
> criteria?
>
> Bug 225221 was going to be my "get familiar with the process" warmup 
> since Dave said going for task management would be OK with him:
>
Don't gripe me about that bug.  I commented on that very bug pointing 
out that the PK is needed.

Also, nobody is obstructing that bug, but nobody seems to have taken on 
the task of making the conversion code work properly.  For existing 
databases, it is probably necessary to first assign integers to the new 
field in the correct order, then identify the new field as a primary key.