Is it just me, or is the quoting in this mail a bit crazy? In any case, I'm fine with projects deciding to use gitlab for their bugtracker. I think they would be crazy to do so, since gitlab's issues system lacks just about everything needed to categorize, prioritize, search and update bugs. (Note "I think... -- that's a opinion, "lacks just about everything" -- that is a fact.)
On donderdag 4 juli 2019 11:49:15 CEST Bhushan Shah wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 08:37:34PM +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > Besides, it's already too easy to make a bug report. Getting more bug > > reports is not a priority for me; at this I would prefer to have less > > interaction between developers and users than more, because we're > > going crazy right now. > > This is your personal opinion. No, this is not a personal opinion. It is not even an opinion. This is the experience of the maintainer of the KDE product that gets most bug reports per week. It is a fact you need to take into consideration. > > > And that's the important thing. Bugzilla is a developer tool, not a > > user tool. We must have easy tools to triage, query, sort, modify sets > > of reports. Bugzilla isn't perfect for that either, but the options > > gitlab gives for handling issues are so limited. > > If bugzilla is developer tool, gitlab is also developer tool, let > developer or maintainer decide how to best use it. Except that for tracking bug reports it is an _inferior_ tool because it lacks the abilities needed to work with large numbers of reports for complex applications. It doesn't even have components -- as far as I can tell, everything needs to do be done with just one thing: labels. > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 10:20:34AM +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On the other hand, we also need to use tools that make our work > > possible. Me being able to do my work, my developers being able to do > > their work is also important. These tools are not for marketing, they > > are for making the development process go better. And not just for > > newcomers, but also for the people actually shouldering the load of > > triaging ~150 reports a month. > > If Kaidan, Calindori or Plasma Mobile uses the Gitlab for issue reporting > because of either a) choice of maintainer or b) choice of specific > sub-community, that decision doesn't affect krita, okular or other KDE > applications. Except that people _are_ talking about bugzilla as if it's yesterday's technology because it's too old fashioned and needs to go away. > > > I disagree. I'm fine with modernizing bugzilla to bugzilla 6. But > > gitlab's issues feature is not powerful enough to handle the amount of > > bug reports I have to handle. In other words, I cannot do my work with > > gitlab's issues feature. It might look more modern, but it just > > doesn't have the power. > > This is your personal opinion. No, this is not an opinion. It is my experience: it is a fact. I need a capable tool. > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 10:39:15AM +0200, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > > In our company we multiple times reviewed bug trackers (for migrating > > from Bugzilla), but none actually had a good enough feature set to be > > considered, beside perhaps Jira (which is non-free/open). > > > > I would wait for the Bugzilla 6 release to judge if the UI arrives in > > the 21th century before making any decisions what to use. Just that > > GitLab is more modern doesn't give it all the features one needs. > > This is your personal opinion. That also is not an opinion. Comparing features of gitlab issues and bugzilla shows that gitlab issues lacks features. That makes it a fact. > In general, I respect everyone's personal opinion that bugzilla at > moment superior to the gitlab issues, but at same time I also want to > respect other developers opinion/choices as long as they abide by the > KDE manifesto written and supported by our community. Pretty much everything which you did away with as "personal opinion" is nothing of the sort. Like I said above, I'd be fine with projects using gitlab for their issue tracking. I don't think that is will be a big problem for users to go gitlab for one project and to bugzilla for another project. But for a project like Krita, gitlab issues is not suitable because it is lacking in features. And that's a fact. Not an opinion. -- https://www.krita.org
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