On Tuesday 29 May 2007 11:31, Nathaniel Homier wrote: > Should a user submit the bug report to dev list or the users list. Is > the dev list strictly for the programmers. I really don't want to > clutter up the dev list. I submitted a bug report to the dev list but I > decided I much prefer to use the user list if you don't mind. This is a good question but I would like to expand it a little. I have my own open source project that is hosted on sourceforge.net. For that project we use the bug and feature request trackers provided by sourceforge. This gives the project a persistant eazy to manage record of all bug reports and enhancement requests made by users. As well as a record of what happened with each item (IE. closed, open, who it is assigned to, added comments...). Our project has found this to be a very valuable tool and many of the items in these trackers were actually added by the developers to track their own work and to help set goals and priorities. And probably even more important to create a public record of what the project has done and what it is going to do.
I have been somewhat surprised that flightgear does not have trackers like this. At least when I have looked for these I have not been able to find any. Perhaps the project should consider setting up a set of trackers for this as I think that in the long run this would help the project. I also think that trackers like this should be public and that the public should be encouraged to post bug reports and enhancement requests in those systems. Hal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
