On Aug 20 14:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:22:46AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: > >On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to > >>have a bug tracker? > > > >-0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if it's implemented.) > > > >We're still going to have to monitor the mailing list, so this just > >adds burden AFAICT. Does anyone really think we'll get fewer duplicate > >reports or better reports with a bug tracker? I don't. I expect it'll > >either not get used or get so full of cruft that it'll become unusable. > > I agree with you 100% I personally think it's going to be a maintenance > burden for me personally. If this is going to be useful, someone has to > monitor it and keep it clean. And we'll have people clamoring for > accounts. And people claiming that they can't get in. > > And, I'll see all of the same non-problems in the bug reports that we > see in the list except when I close something as WONTFIX it will be > reopened by some cranky user. That's just more stomach acid for me. > > However, if we can get someone to take on some of this burden, I'm > willing to do what's necessary to tweak bugzilla. I don't want to stand > in the way of "progress" if we everyone thinks this is a good idea. > > I respect the opinions of the maintainers here because they have > demonstrated that they know what they are doing. I don't automatically > give credence to random internet voices because they stress their points > in insulting or forceful ways, no matter how much they want to be seen > as experts. So, if a majority of maintainers think this is a good idea > I'm much more likely to be convinced. > > (I don't speak for Corinna here, of course)
You do, you just didn't know it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat