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Re: Issue Trackers - What do we want

From: Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Issue Trackers - What do we want
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:57:46 +1000
Organization: The SXEmacs Project
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* heat sink <heatxsink@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

  > I thought one of the painful reasons to branch was that bug
  > reporting wasn't being taken into consideration.

Yes.

  > Granted even going with bugzilla is a huge step in the right
  > direction.

Yes.

  > But perhaps we should look at bug tracking with a lot more
  > seriousness than what the norm is?  So this project can take the
  > lead with current xemacs, and even might set the tone for new ways
  > of handling bug tracking.  It is a serious aspect of open source
  > development that most projects don't take very seriously.  We
  > could pioneer a way of automating it more efficiently.  I'm just
  > putting ideas out there, but from what Steve wrote in his initial
  > email/idea fest I'm just questioning at weather or not current
  > solutions are effective enough.  Please understand that I'm not
  > shooting down just using bugzilla standalone either.  Just putting
  > my two sense in.  And really posing the problem, and really
  > thinking if bugzilla standalone is enough?

I like your thinking.  If BugZilla is the way we go initially (and I'm
beginning to think that it will be), there's no reason why we can't
come up with a better alternative in the future.

These issue tracker thingies are really not much more than a frontend
to a database, correct?  I'm hoping PostgreSQL at that.  So it should
be a fairly trivial matter to use or transfer the database to
some other new-improved issue tracker at a later date.

Who knows, maybe some sexy hacker will deuglify BugZilla. :-)


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