Re: Bugzilla instead of RT (was: Membership for Alexander Gabriel - status?)

[sankarshan <foss mailinglists gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Bruno
Boaventura<brunoboaventura gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:16 AM, sankarshan<foss mailinglists gmail com> wrote:
> > The flow of tasks for the Membership and Elections Committee lend
> > itself well to Request Tracker. Each membership related query is a
> > request and, can be transacted over e-mail along with the chance of
> > metrics being generated (if at all required). BZ lends itself well to
> > defect/enhancement tracking. There are some other tools like
> > IssueTracker etc which do the same but RT3 has been a consistently
> > widely used tool.
>
> Thinking on it again, I see that BZ can't keep some data private (the
> conversation between the MC members, and the reply of the contacts),
> and it's not good.

Bugzilla does have the ability to have comments as "private"

> Everyone seeing why we reject someone's membership is a bad thing.

Last time I checked, the approved ones went to the mailing list which
was archived in public. As did the requests. I do not know about the
rejections though. :)


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