Alan Hourihane wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:20:47PM +0100, José Fonseca wrote: > >>On 2002.06.13 15:43 Alan Hourihane wrote: >> >>>... >>> >>>What would be great, is if someone assigned the bugs to relevant >>>developers. Once someone is assigned to the bug report, they get >>>emails whenever it's updated. But that someone needs to know who >>>to charge with that bug report. >>> >>>Someone who would standup to maintain it would be GREAT! >>> >>>Alan. >>> >>That person's time would be better spent by setting up a _real_ bug >>tracking system, where this would be done automatically, such as bugzilla >>or the debian one. >> >>I know that usually the saying is the other way around but... "we >>shouldn't have a person doing a machine's job"! >> > > What I'm afraid might happen with setting up something like bugzilla, > is the much more severe maintenance of it. If that person where to > walk away from the project, we're much more stuck that where we are > now with SF. O.k. I admit that the SF system is primitive, but it > works without too much maintenance. It's just that we (as developers) > aren't using it at all. And that's down to us.
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... Keith _______________________________________________________________ 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
