On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com>: >> Can I get a show of hands? ?How many package maintainers would like to >> have a bug tracker? > >1+ > >Yes, it's a lot more work for all parties, the server maintainer, >the package maintainer and the user. And I believe it will suffer >from the same problems as the almost unusable perl core tracker >- everybody uses the mailing list for serious bugs. > >But at least it's an access point for other types of users, and >maybe we'll get patches also. >setup.exe got a lot of patches this way.
I just read the bugzilla entries for bugzilla. I'm wondering why the then maintainer thought it was necessary to add patches to bugzilla. That's pretty nonstandard. >And did I say I really like the github, google and trac trackers (issue lists), >and hate RT and bugzilla. Once again, I'm not going to consider implementing something new for Cygwin. The rest of sourceware uses bugzilla and that's what we'll be using. cgf