Re: [Tracker] Bugzilla is not the evil [was Re: Issues with current trunk]

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2008/12/6 Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> On 05/12/08 10:52, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > Il giorno mar, 02/12/2008 alle 01.34 +0100, Michael Biebl ha scritto:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > instead of filing tons of bugs (we already have more than enough, many
> > > are unanswered), I'll try to write up a (short) list, upon which
> > > issues I stumbled:
> >
> > I know it's OT but... are you really sure that this list of issues on
> > mailing list (or on a wiki page) can be managed better then filed bugs
> > on bugzilla???
> >
> > Maybe bugzilla is not trivial, but it's well suited to _track_ issues
> > and their life cycle. I'm currently using bugzilla to track the status
> > of HighContrast-SVG icon theme and it's really really useful, especially
> > helpful to allow other people to know if someone if working on a bug and
> > if a bug fix is planned/desired to land on future release
> >
> > Of course active developers should take care to check stuff on bugzilla,
> > confirm the bug and eventually assign it. Is not useful report a bug on
> > bugzilla if nobody will take care of it ;)
>
> Luca is right. We should be using bugzilla.
>
> Adding your fix requests to the mailing list does not guarantee us looking
> at them in any way what so ever.

Just look at the current tracker bugzilla, it's completely unusable
and ~80 bug reports are still unanswered.

For a pressing issue like the 0.6.90, I feared that my bug reports
were lost somewhere between them.

Unless the bugzilla gets more efficient, I actually prefer a mailing
list/irc/wiki.

Cheers,
Michael

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