On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Max Waterman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/10/13 16:01, Balestrieri, Francesco wrote: >>>> A will report bugs in Jira, and we will be asking community members >>>> > >and anybody else who has a bug for Crosswalk to do the same. Obviously >>>> > >it's easier to use a single tracker tool, but if anybody finds Github >>>> > >useful for e.g. task tracking, there is nothing preventing that. >>> > >>> >I'd rather not have a murky situation in which some bugs end up in GitHub >>> >and >>> >others in JIRA, and the same happens to tasks and other things. Whether we >>> >agree that all bug reports go into JIRA and only JIRA or GitHub is >>> >orthogonal, >>> >what I would realy like is for everyone to agree on a single solution now >>> >and >>> >start updating whatever documentation needs to be updated. >> Yes I agree. > > I would like to offer an alternative opinion ;) > > In my experience, JIRA puts up a big barrier to filing bugs - compared to > github issues, and even other channels such as email. I know *I* have felt > the pressure to *not* file a bug, and I have also heard the same from others. > > IMO, being able to report bugs easily is the most important thing. Otherwise > you might not get to know about the bugs at all. > It is easy to see both extremes on this scale....make it 'impossible' to > report bugs means no bugs at all - woo hoo!; yet, allowing vague reports with > lack of info means you can't even reproduce them, let alone track how well > they are being fixed/etc. > > Yes, I understand that not being able to manage the bugs is also important, > and it occurs to me that it might be good to have a person whose > responsibility it is to capture bug reports, no matter where they are > reported, and manually import them into JIRA. > > Anyway, I feel that there needs to be an easier way to file bugs than JIRA, > even if JIRA is actually the final 'one true' bug resposiitory. > > IMO, bugzilla offerred a good 'middle ground', but it seems we're past the > point of deciding which tool to use. Bugzilla is ruled out by IT due to security problems so we couldn’t even consider it. > > Preparing to 'disagree and commit' ;) > > Max. > _______________________________________________ > Crosswalk-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/mailman/listinfo/crosswalk-dev _______________________________________________ Crosswalk-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/mailman/listinfo/crosswalk-dev
