From: Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@forexware.com>
Subject: Re: gnus bugs tracking
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:57:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isu9d4bl.fsf@forexware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilubs03xu7l.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:05:34 +0100")
>>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:05:34 +0100
>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
SJ>
SJ> Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@myxomop.com> writes:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Sometimes bugs reported to ding@gnus.org are forgotten without a fix.
>> It's a pity. And it is a trouble, since gnus does not have its own bug
>> tracking system.
>>
>> Any comments?
SJ>
SJ> Adding meta-data management to the current gnus.gnus-bug is one useful
SJ> improvement I can see. Like, e.g., making it possible to enter the
SJ> summary buffer and list all "open" bugs, and be able to "close" them
SJ> somehow. I'm not sure how to best implement this though. With IMAP
SJ> it would have been simple, by using "gnus-bug-open", "gnus-bug-fixed",
SJ> "gnus-bug-wontfix" etc flags on the messages.
but gnus.gnus-bug is an nntp, not an imap group, isn't it?
SJ> Web based bug tracker systems are just a time sink. The bugs are
SJ> tracked, but less frequently fixed because developers cannot
SJ> prioritize. In mail, if a problem is serious many people will report
SJ> it many times until it is fixed. So it has a built-in flexible
SJ> adaptive priority system which most web BTS's lack.
I am almost sure that most of existing and working BTS have notion of
priority. Even I would not call them "web BTS", since frontend is not
the main part of most databases.
--
Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-23 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-22 12:23 Alexander Kotelnikov
2003-03-22 12:42 ` Vasily Korytov
2003-03-22 13:14 ` Alexander Kotelnikov
2003-03-22 13:26 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-03-22 16:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-22 17:49 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-03-22 18:06 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-03-23 23:57 ` Alexander Kotelnikov [this message]
2003-03-26 12:18 ` Alexander Kotelnikov
2003-03-30 2:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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