On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:10 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:52:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > > > This is true for the initial report. But you also gain something > > > bugzilla has and reportbug doesn't: you can crawl on the website, find > > > an interesting bug, and direclty add some comments. > > > > > I don't see how this is anything that can't be done (better) currently. > > Just try Bugzilla. Really. It has some major issues, but it is also > considerably more advanced than debbugs in several domains. > Yes, I have used buzilla to submit bugs to the Linux Kernel, Apache and for a few internal projects where people preferred it. It sucks. It is far too complex.
> The simple fact that anyone having submitted a comment to a bug is > automatically added to the CC list for later comments is something that > should be trivial to implement. Instead, we have a bloated and useless > subscription scheme. > How is it stupid. I submit comments to *lots* of bugs where I have *no* interest in seeing the rest of the traffic for. If I had to unsubscribe every time I made a comment on a bug, I'd get annoyed. I hate to think how vorlon would feel. He probably comments on sever dozen unique bugs a week. > Separation between products and components is also something that we > should have given how packages are currently managed. Instead of > products and components, we would talk about teams and packages, but the > concept is the same. > > I'm not saying that we should switch to bugzilla - it doesn't fit our > needs. The version tracking in the BTS was also a major breakthrough > that is still unique AFAIK. But the state of denial we are in, saying > that our software can't be improved because it is better than everything > else on all matters, is something that must stop. > I'm not saying that it is better on all matters and that it can't be improved. What I am saying is that I don't see how slapping a web interface on debbugs is going to get us any closer to "better" than where we are now. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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