On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:49:57PM +0100, José Fonseca wrote: > On 2002.06.13 16:24 Alan Hourihane wrote: > >... > > > >What I'm afraid might happen with setting up something like bugzilla, > >is the much more severe maintenance of it. If that person where to > >walk away from the project, we're much more stuck that where we are > >now with SF. O.k. I admit that the SF system is primitive, but it > >works without too much maintenance. It's just that we (as developers) > >aren't using it at all. And that's down to us. > > > > I really don't see in what way, once setup, a bugzilla database would > require more maintainance than the SF system. It's quite clear what the > "low maintainance" of SF systems leads to..! And I think we are less > dependent of anyone if we have an automatic system than otherwise. > > A system such as bugzilla can address everyone's needs (including Keith's > and Jens'). Taking for example what is done in Gentoo linux: there is a > default bug owner which is actually a mailing list. So every bug report > and comments are received by every developer list, until someone reclaims > ownership and removes the default owner. Basically is just like another > mailing list, with the difference that the bugs get into a database. > > While you see bugzilla and debian bt system being succesfully used in big > projects, I don't know of any project making real use of the SF bt system. > Another thing that is very nice with bugzilla is that it can remember us, > so you don't need to always login(!)... > > IMHO, if someone is serious in respect with a bug tracking system it > should setup one that suits the DRI project need. And that work could be > even used to bootstrap a XFree86 bugtracking system. Put a poor soul in > charge with the SF system is just digging deeper...
I don't think so. The SF system is overloaded - for the only reason is that the developers aren't even looking at them to close them. If someone where to go through the SF system and clean it all up, I think there will actually be very few bugs indeed. And we don't need to spend time on the bugzilla setup. If Dieter is volunteering to go through it - then power to him... Alan. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
