I have no doubt that Mantis is a good system and I might even concede that it is superior to Bugzilla. But I prefer to reuse the Bugzilla system at kernel.org for these reasons:
1. Nobody has yet volunteered to setup and maintain Mantis or Bugzilla for ALSA purposes. 2. ALSA is closely related with the kernel (especially since version 2.6). It therefore makes some sense to track ALSA issues together with (other) kernel issues. This makes it easy to link to other kernel bugs or move bugs to other Categories. 3. It is probably much easier to add a Category "Sound" to bugzilla.kernel.org with a suitable list of Components than to create and maintain a new Bugzilla or Mantis installation just for ALSA. In other words: this approach enables the ALSA project to use networking effects. Of course this approach also has disadvantages. One of them is that the treatment of version numbers (kernel versus ALSA) is not obvious. But I think that this does not prevent the use of bugzilla.kernel.org for ALSA. The Version field is configured as a free form field. Those who enter bugs for ALSA should either enter the kernel version or a combination of kernel version and ALSA version. The second alternative would (hopefully) be used by those people who create their own kernels. In case the proposal is accepted and nobody has connections to the maintainers of kernel.org I would volunteer to ask the bugzilla.kernel.org maintainer to add a new Category "Sound" with a small number of Components (suggestions?). Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Hollis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andreas Kuckartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:56 AM Subject: [Alsa-user] Re: [Alsa-devel] Bugtracking system > On 21 Jan 2004, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > > I clearly prefer Bugzilla to the sourceforge bugtracking system. > > I can't stand bugzilla or sourceforge bugtracker. > > I searched a long time for a good bugtracker, tried many different ones > before I decided on mantis: http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net/ > > It's much more straightforward than bugzilla, far more powerful than > sourceforge, much much easier to use, and very easy to install. > > -Dan ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
