On 2/23/2010 1:59 AM, Robert Osfield wrote: > I know you don't like issues trackers/queues, but I think you're in > the minority there. > Some system really do make a big difference with productivity, some work > against it, and some the cost/benefit ratio is pretty close to breaking > even. The ticketing/bug tracking isn't something that will make a big > difference, at best the cost/benefit ratio will be close to breaking > even if we get it right, if we get it wrong then the cost will exceed > the benefit.
I would counter that you personally don't need to use it if you don't like, though obviously I think it would benefit from your participation. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I thought I've seen a number of others mentioning that it would be useful for them. How could the cost be excessive? Would you rather hunt through mailing list postings to find all the messages relating to a previously-reported bug, and their attachments? Or have a centralized record of everything pertaining to the issue? I know you probably prefer to fix bugs as they happen and not have to log them, but the reality remains that some issues are not immediately fixable, and at the moment, I think a lot of them fall off the edge of the universe if they are not preserved somehow. > In terms of the overall OpenSceneGraph ecosystem the cost/benefits > aren't evenly distributed. If there are elements that are overloaded > then these are the areas where we need to minimize the costs and > maximize the benefits, while parts that aren't overloaded we can > accommodate a little increase in cost w.r.t benefit and not have the > overall system start to struggle. > If there is any doubt that the "new" system is going increase me load on > me than I'm not going to volunteer to go down this route, it's not good > for me personally, and it wouldn't be good for the wider project as we > can't suddenly throw a switch and not rely on me so much. I believe we could introduce a issue ticket tracker without cost to you. I'd be curious to hear input from other significant OSG developers about whether they use an issue tracker in their work, if they find it effective and useful, and if they believe it would be similarly useful to OSG. > Robert. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
