On Mon Mar 12, 2012 at 12:38:46PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Looks a lot like a new way of subversive spam to circumvent even human > spam filters -- with the overlong signature likely being the real > contents.
Well it circumvented me :-( Fortuntately not enough to make me click on any links though :-) > > Could you elaborate on why you don't consider SD to be a 'real' > > DBTS? > > Because it just seems a front end to existing bug trackers or ticket > systems like Request Tracker, etc. The synchronisation with existing bug trackers is a feature of SD, but not the primary working mode. SD allows creation and modification of bugs stored on the local filesystem or in an SQLite database. Proper peer-to-peer synchronisation between SD instances is the top-billed feature that is only matched by Fossil so far. On paper that would appear to the killer criteria for a successful DBTS ... but apparently on its own not enough; SD (nor Fossil) is not taking off like I would have expected. > > I believe there is a standalone single-user web interface. > > Well, I'm actually looking for a multi-user interface. Joey's Ikiwiki > comes very close to what I look for, only that it's a wiki and not as > much of a bug tracker as I look for despite some people use it as > such. Do you mean something like the Github of the Project Management World? To me a distributed project management tool kind of eliminates the need for multi-user tools, unless you are thinking of large non-technical end-user populations, in which case the distributed criteria probably ranks lower overall (although not necessarily in the minds of developers :-). > > It has obviously has a long way to go in terms of documentation and > > usability, but I feel it currently comes the closest to offering a > > truly distributed bug database. > > So with which backend do you use it? I actually don't use it. I find it slow, unintuitive and difficult to use as a stand-alone tool, let alone as a distributed one. I still think its underlying functionality is the beginning of what I want to see in a DBTS but the implementation makes me want to write my own interface. > Oh, and btw., that Mantis installation didn't last long, either. The > current system is a file KNOWN_BUGS in the git source code repo... Likewise. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Lawrence _______________________________________________ dist-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dist-bugs
