On Monday 21 March 2005 01:36 pm, Bryan Murphy wrote: > Isaac Richards wrote: > > On Monday 21 March 2005 12:42 pm, andrew burke wrote: > > The reason bugzilla's not linked on the main page is that it's been > > fairly useless, in my opinion. I get better results handling bugs posted > > to the lists - better feedback from other people, it's more likely that > > the reporter will actually _respond_ if more information is requested, > > etc. > > > > The main reason I started the bug tracker in the first place is because a > > lot of people _insisted_ that they would help with development more if > > there was a list of bugs for them to fix. To date, I don't believe a > > single (external to 'main develoeprs') bug fix has come from it. > > I just want to point out that this is a chicken and egg scenario. > People don't use it because it's not being used the devs. The devs > don't use it because nobody else is submitting to it. > > If you actually made a concerted effort to use bug tracking, I suspect > things would change. I know I've looked at the bug list myself only to > come to the conclusion that it was out of date and the list was a better > source of information.
It's not out of date at all. > If you want it to work, you have to consistently use it, even when it's > painful. This has consistently been my experience in my professional > career as a developer. I'm using it as much as people submitting to it are. I don't use it for my own bugs I find, because I fix them as I find them, and going through the process of submitting a bug for myself, and then marking it as fixed immediately seems rather silly. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
