Mike A. Harris wrote (in a message from Monday 13)
> I'd be interested also in hearing feedback and comments from
> Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
> Caldera, and other Linux and BSD distribution XFree86
> package maintainers, and other developers also. I've talked
> personally with some of them already, but the more who get
> involved the better. We all benefit, and everyone's feedback is
> very valuable.
In my opinion, a bug tracking system would help, but as others
already said, setting up and maintaining such a system in a useful
state is a really time-consuming task.
The Gnats systems used in OpenBSD (and in other BSDs too) is not
perfect, but it has been proven itself useful in a few occasions,
although not all submitted PRs get handled.
On the other side, I've seen other projects where the bug tracking
system totally failed : no one would take the time to fill reports and
anyways no developper ever bothered to look at the few reports that
were filed.
A bug tracking software per itself doesn't prevent bug reports from
staying unanswered for weeks nor does it automagically insure that
fixes are correct. Only the work of the people reviewing and editing
the contents of the database can produce those effects.
If some people are seriously volunteering to go through a specification
and review process to setup a system that will be bring something the
project, let's start it. If done right it will help to focus
developper attention on things that need fixing.
Matthieu
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