On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:10:14AM +0100, Egbert Eich scrawled: > Matt Wilson writes: > > I'm not attempting to bully anyone, nor have I argued that you or any > > other member (individual or corporate) of XFree86. However, there are > > plenty of volunteers that are offering to set up and maintain a bug > > tracking system for you. I think that such a project would be much > > more successful if it were endorsed by XFree86 and integrated into the > > development policy for the project. > > Sorry, this is not how it goes. We won't be willing > to adopt anything blindly. There is a German saying > applying here: > 'Never buy a cat in the bag!' > > 1. First there should be a proposal
There has been. > 2. Secondly there should be a test implementation > as proof of concept we can work with and see > how well it goes. I've said before that I'm willing to set up debbugs+PTS/Bugzilla. IMHO Bugzilla would be better for this situation. > 4. Thirdly this should be evaluated > - if we think it is usable at all. > - what modifications we would like to see. > 5. The modified system needs to get retested and reevaluated. > 6. This is the earliest stage we can talk about a more or > less formal policy. I see no real reason to stick this much to a formal process. > Up to now it is not even clear who should be able to > submit to this bug tracking system: > Should it be internal only? NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO AND NO. > Should only projects like GNOME, KDE etc and > distributions like RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake be able to > submit bugs? This is one of the worst ideas I've heard yet. > Or should it be open to the general public? Yes, but with Bugzilla you can have open submissions, but only certain users able to set bugs to CONFIRMED, etc. Maybe if we handed the latter out to only clueful people ... :) d, KDE developer and current Debian XFree86 4.3 dude, so excuse the bias -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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