Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:06:42PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: > >> Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to >> have a bug tracker? > >There is only one good, easy to use, user/maintainer friendly bug >tracker I know of: > >debbugs [1] Yo

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-25 Thread Jari Aalto
Christopher Faylor writes: > Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to > have a bug tracker? There is only one good, easy to use, user/maintainer friendly bug tracker I know of: debbugs [1] The best thing about it is that it is very lightweight and controllable

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 20/08/2010 19:01, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to > have a bug tracker? I would definitely use it, the same way I currently use the GCC bug tracker: I'd set up a whine email reminder, so that I didn't have to exert any extra e

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 13:51 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > OTOH, I do sometimes miss things on the main list due to the > signal-to-noise ratio, which I imaging would be even greater for a > maintainer with only a small number of packages. So using Bugzilla > "internally" would be helpful. > >

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:01 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to > have a bug tracker? Depends on how we use it. Don't get me wrong -- I like working with Bugzilla, and we do use it *internally* for Cygwin/X, but the list is sti

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 14:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:22:46AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: > >On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to > >>have a bug tracker? > > > >-0 (Not in favor, but I'll m

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:24:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >>2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor : >>> Can I get a show of hands? ?How many package maintainers would like to >>> have a bug tracker? >> >>1+ >> >>Yes, it's a lot more wor

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:22:46AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to >>have a bug tracker? > >-0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if it's implemented.) > >We're still going to

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor : >> Can I get a show of hands? ?How many package maintainers would like to >> have a bug tracker? > >1+ > >Yes, it's a lot more work for all parties, the server maintainer, >the package maintainer and the us

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to > have a bug tracker? -0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if it's implemented.) We're still going to have to monitor the mailing list, so this just adds burden AFAICT. Does

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor : > Can I get a show of hands?  How many package maintainers would like to > have a bug tracker? 1+ Yes, it's a lot more work for all parties, the server maintainer, the package maintainer and the user. And I believe it will suffer from the same problems as the almost

bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? One problem that I see immediately is that if we publicly adopt a bug tracker EVERY maintainer will have to use it. We can't expect a normal user to understand that they send email to the mailing list for b