On 7/25/06, Daniel Larimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would the community be interested in me hosting a Bugzilla server configured to post bug reports to this mailing list? It would provide a useful means of searching for known bugs and tracking their status.
I *detest* bugzillam, and would certainly not use it, or encourage its use. A long while back, when I lead a closed source team, we set bugzilla database for logging all software bugs thinking its was the right thing to do. In hindsight it was worst things we did as a dev team, it placed an artificial non human barrier between the one reporting the bug and the ones fixing it. It increased the amount of time to track down and fix bugs and it created ill will. The fact is that OpenSceneGraph has gone from nothing to a leading scene graph technology without bugzilla, this is testament at how little impact such tools really have, if they were essential then we would have been successful. I would actually attribute part of that success to not using something like bug zilla, but promoting the publication of bugs through the mailing list, and fixes things as soon as possible. Now when it comes to tracking bug fixes then there is the ChangeLog, cvs can produce a full ChangeLog at a moments notice, and bug fixes are all noted in the submission messages. Searching the mailing, or even asking the mailing list is another means for tracking reported bugs. Now this might seem an extra hurdle that if you don't want to really talk to anybody its a pain, but for me engaging with people is what gets things fixed so its something that should be encouraged. For particular problem areas, like flaky OpenGL drivers we can use the wiki. http://www.openscenegraph.org/osgwiki/pmwiki.php/Tasks/OpenGLConformance Or for stubbon issues that need resolution: http://www.openscenegraph.org/osgwiki/pmwiki.php/Tasks/BugResolution Note, that this system for bug reporting, and fixing is a low maintaince one, it happens as a natural part of developing the software. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
