> From: Dan Bron > What is the preferred way to report bugs? So far as I know, the 3 > venues are: > > 1. This forum, e.g. [1] > 2. The wiki, e.g. at > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Interpreter/Bugs > 3. Trac, i.e. at http://www.jsoftware.com/trac/base > > The Trac page says it supercedes the Wiki -- is that statement true, > and currently in force? If so, why does it require logging in, > and is there a public login?
Quoted from the page you linked to below [1]. " == Note == Currently only code browsing is possible, but the ability to create and edit Tickets will be enabled in due course. == Old Issues == The issue tracking features of this Trac project are intended to replace the previous method for reporting, discussing and tracking issues on the jwiki Requests & Bug Reports pages. Once the Trac facility is fully functional, these old wiki pages will be locked-for-editing, but will be retained for posterity. " > Is Trac also preferred to reporting bugs here? Is anyone tasked with > making sure any bugs reported here make it into Trac (e.g. > [1])? > > Finally, since J development is essentially federated (Roger on engine, > Chris on scripts, Eric on FE, Oleg/Henry/Ric/others on > various Addons), does the preferred venue change depending on who owns > responsibility for the buggy component? Do individual > contributors have preferences? I think (certainly my preference) would be that everything move to Trac. However to me, the forum discussion of these issues seems to have some benefits. Perhaps both could be facilitated by new/edited tickets on Trac automatically sending an email to a (possibly new) email forum list? As I understand it the bit that is currently holding up progress is how best to provide authentication for users wanting to add tickets. Currently users with rights to commit to Subversion should be able to login to Trac, but it is not really desirable to give SVN commit rights to everyone who just wants to create a Ticket. It would nice to be able to give anyone with a jwiki account permissions to create tickets on Trac but that is apparently non-trivial. A single-sign-on model has also been proposed to cover all of Wiki, Subversion, Trac, Forums. This seems like a sensible idea but is potentially complex. > [1] http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009- > December/017165.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
