On Nov 23, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Alfred Reynolds wrote:
The idea is an interesting one but the value would come from effective implementation. As I said last time, implement it and if managed properly I am sure we would fine it a valuable source (we already use Steampowered forum threads but the signal to noise ration can be quite poor).
(hlds_apps, sorry about the cross-post but I felt this was relevant.) Alright. I think what happened last time is, after you said this, someone threw up a tracker and it promptly fizzled. I don't think it was the fault of anyone in particular, it just didn't get enough momentum. So! Anyone, If you're interested in DEVELOPING or CUSTOMIZING a bug tracking system for the community and valve to use jointly, please email me personally. Given enough interest, I will setup a mailing list until our program becomes relevant enough to bother Alfred about putting up a related list. Put something like "Valve Bug tracker" in the subject so I can find it quickly. This is not necessarily something that requires pure programming effort: if you have ideas to contribute, or you're a HTML jockey, etc, we can use you. For those not following the hlds_linux thread, I'm personally leaning towards bugzilla (and will be exploring that ASAP) but have no reason to stick to it, given willing contributors to another system. Our current (tentative) requirements are a voting system to promote bugs to attention, the ability to have valve bring community bugs into an internal tracker, and the ability to have bugs with opaque descriptions (to protect valve and its users against the wanton posting of exploit information). -- Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
