On Nov 23, 2013, at 10:51 PM, Lorenz Köhl <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>> So registering on Pharo tracker *never* worked for me, since I try,
>>>> before the summer.
>>> In the end I think is was a mistake to use fogbugz. For sure it’s nice for 
>>> companies, but
>>> for open sourse projects it just does not work with a closed bug tracker.
>>> 
>>> Now the question is what is the effort to move to yet another one?
>> I do not like fogbugz but I would not change now.
>> Let us
>>      - make it easy for people to log
> 
> The Racket programming language (racket-lang.org) has in its IDE DrRacket a 
> menu item
>       - Submit bug report
> 
> Details about the system and a description of the bug is gathered and sent of 
> to a bugs mailing list as well as creating an issue in a bug tracker. This 
> way you get the issue number, a possible discussion thread about the 
> bug/enhancement and any user can take part. IMHO this is the _right_ way to 
> do it.

Long long time ago all the bugs could be submitted from Squeak itself (way 
before racket even started to exist) and we add a tool
to crawl the emails and sort the bugs and it was a lot of work. 

So the Right way is something to evaluate and learn.

> 
> Is there something similar for pharo? 

No but it was planned now if people can publish bug at a fast rate (and may be 
there are not bug) our question is:  is it really reasonable to overwhelm with 
bugs :)

> Contributing changes this way might get more complicated though, but possible.


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