That sounds like a great plan to me. :-) +1 --Nathan
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> I am getting increasingly frustrated that Rigify bugs are being >> reported as comments on the same damn bug report: >> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=469&aid=25546&group_id=153 >> >> I notice that in all included Blender addons (including Rigify) there >> is a "report a bug" link that points to an individual report such as >> this, which I presume is what's causing users to simply append their >> own bugs to this single bug report. As a maintainer this is extremely >> frustrating because it means I cannot manage Rigify's bug reports >> properly (i.e. there are no real reports, just comments). >> >> I want to check if this is the intended behavior for users to take >> when reporting addon bugs. If not, then I will simply close the >> report and include an explanation for them to file new reports for >> their bugs. On the other hand, if it is the intended behavior for >> users to take... why? It makes me far more apt to miss reports, >> forget that I haven't already fixed something, etc. And it is >> hair-pullingly frustrating to not have the satisfaction of marking >> something as fixed after I fix it. >> >> --Nathan V > > It is the intended behavior but I don't think it works well at all, > > I think this is how extensions were planned by extensions admins long > before they were used for addons - guessing > - Nathan Letwory / Luca Bonavita (mindrones) / Brendon Murphy > (meta-androcto) ? --- not sure though. > > IMHO addons _as_ issues Its bad because... > - You cant look at the list and pick a bug to fix. > - You don't get a sense of which addons are buggy or which developers > are not maintaining their work. > - It discourages devs fixing bugs in other peoples addons because they > have to look into the addon to find bugs. > - Issues get mixed up - false alarms are mixed with real issues, no > way to remove invalid comments. > - You don't any get satisfaction from closing bug reports, or getting > the tracker below 50 :D > > Discussed with Luca and we tentatively agreed to move to match > bf-blender bug tracker style where each issue being a bug - but I'm > not sure when of if this is planned - Luca didn't have time for it > last we talked, so maybe others can arrange for this. > > Prefer we keep the wiki's as is (that works well), but have 1 tracker > for extensions, starting new trackers is quite trivial (did this for > BMesh) so we could start a new one, and make links in the interface go > to the new tracker, then slowly move reports over from the existing > tracker to the new one. > > I can do this if nobody else wants to but interested to hear from > other addon admins/devs what they think of this first. > > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
