Bug Reporting / Issue Tracking System ?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:28 +0100, Holger Weiss wrote:
>> * "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> [2007-12-06 11:19]:
>>> Am I going crazy or is there no public system for formally tracking bug
>>> reports / feature requests?
> 
> HW:
> 
> It would add a nominal level of formality to the releng process that
> might attract attention & impress individuals examining the merits and
> feasibility of the code-base for use in large production environments.
> 
> Consider the successful large-scale F/OSS projects that champion a
> tracking system:
> 
> - Apache HTTPD
> - Samba
> - OpenLDAP
> - Mozilla 
> - OpenOffice
> - FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD
> 

Consider git and Linux, which doesn't. A btts isn't a recipe for success,
and one that doesn't see frequent use is worse than having none at all.
Since Ethan seems to be away on semi-extended vacation at the moment,
I'm not sure what, if anything can be done about it right now though.


> I'll donate any server class hardware required to host the system that
> the development team desires.  Just let me know.
> 

Much appreciated. I'm still not sure it's worth it though. Serious bugs
are generally fixed rather quickly. Those that are debatable ("I think
Nagios should work like this: ...") are often sent to nagios-devel@
first anyways, so duplicating the discussion in the bugtracker would
just be tedious work that no-one would do.

Feature-requests are usually gathered through the list too, and the
ones deemed cool and fun to work on often get implemented the first
rainy day ;-)

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