I am pretty glad I asked. It makes things clearer for me, and changes my mind about the tracker.
Ok. -- Sylvain PS: I am a bit worried that still no mail gets to savannah-hackers... It receives my mails but not yours. Maybe there is some new spam policy there (aren't you running your own mail server btw?) > >> In my opinion and in the opinion of CERN, the tracker is the most > >> interesting feature in Savane. This was why Savane was chosen by CERN > >> over SourceForge, Bugzilla and GForge by CERN. This is the most used > >> feature at CERN - where the mail interface would be a plus but is not > >> the main issue. > >> So it's logical to improve that part of Savane. > >> > >> We could make binding over another bug tracking system - but what > >> would be the point in using Savane, so? > > > > Well, what about managing projects (in the webui and in the system), > > mailing lists, etc? > > Frankly, the point of whole thing is the fact it is > integrated. Writing a software that binds a bug tracker to others > things is not a complete stupid idea. But that's not the way > sourceforge was designed and so neither the way savane was designed. > > And currently I see no point in moving to another bug tracker (that > would be a completely different project; not ininteresting > conceptually, but well...). Finally, the only financial support to > the project is the CERN; so if the CERN wants to the trackers to be > improved over other features, it will be the trackers that will be > improved. > > I hadnt myself a clear idea of the tracker usefulness with the sole > experience of Savannah. Most persons that go on Savannah (true also > for Gna) come to get mailing-list and cvs repositories. Only few of > them really use a bug tracker, only a few of them are project > developed by large teams (there are project with 50 members, but more > than a half are member for historical reasons). At CERN, the situation > is completely different, almost the opposite; they don't need Savane > to get CVS repositories, and they use the trackers in a way more > intensive way than any project at Savannah or Gna. Most features of > the bug trackers are just completely ignored at Savannah and Gna, > while they are commonly used at CERN - because at CERN, it is a > professional environment, not projects mostly done by volunteers.
