On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:05:05PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:46:44PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > >>It's not that I'm being lazy when I say I don't want to use it. > >> > >>First of all, if someone has a bug they want me to fix, they should stick > >>around long enough to have an email conversation about it. I'm doing > >>free work for them, if I decide/am able to fix the bug, after all. > >> > >>The bug tracker gets in the way of any communication between me & the guy > >>with the bug. It adds useless work in terms of logging into sf, fighting > >>with their dumb web frontend, and whatever, every time I want to talk to > >>the other person. > >> > >>Then, worst of all, once I fix the bug I have to go in and tell the damn > >>thing that it's fixed. Why bother? The other guy presumably already > >>knows, having been involved throughout... > >> > > > >Interactivity is one of the major problems. The hassle of logging > >into SF and talking with someone via that mechanism is agreeably > >terrible. I'm not doubting you on that at all. > > > >But you can't force the bug reporter to be on dri-devel. > > They can mail to it without subscribing.
True. The other alternative is to completely close the bug-tracking system and don't allow it. Forcing people to email. It's currently what we do for XFree86 too anyway (no bug tracker) :) Alan. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
