I figured you probably had your reasons, thanks for sharing them.
Thanks,
Dan
On Jul 25, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Robert Osfield wrote:
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.
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