On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:58:16AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: ... > Jira was discussed a couple of years ago: > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/devel/08/09/0006.html > > I presume that the disposition towards non-FOSS platforms remains.
Was just an idea. IMHO the hosting team needs to decide, what they can accomplish/how many time they are able to invest to get that thing driven/maintained/adjusted. Everybody else has to live with that decision ;-) ... > The key to having a successful result is not the software, but that the end > users and developers can interact with a base of information that enables > productive conversation. Exactly wrt. the last part. But often even developers just want to get its work done, don't have the time to get trained to a more or less complicated beast, have at least at the beginning no intention to extend it and just want to have their "customers" report bugs/oddities in a usable style, which is a problem, if one presents an interface, which is hard to use / use as intented because of the "none"-expert knowledge ... So IMHO success certainly depends on the software, as long as you do not have access limited to a [small] trained group ... ... > I would argue that if there was a somewhat bigger hurdle Hurdles wrt. SW dev and help are always bad. Thinking about how to make it easier to find the required information/right direction is a good thing ... > Whatever the host system may be, a member of R Core will still need to > manually process the report, adding to their overhead. Reducing the number of > false positives would be helpful. ... Yes. So good/extensive documentation/examples is the? key for success ? ;-) Regards, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
