Ric wrote: > Currently only code browsing is possible, Ah, sorry, I didn't read the page carefully enough.
> 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? I might suggest turning this around. Because of J's novelty, we get a lot of bug reports that turn out to be documented, if counterintuitive, behavior. I know I've submitted (much more than) my fair share of those. So I suggest we take your idea of a [Jbugs] mailing list, and report all (non-beta) bugs are to be there, perhaps in a simple format like "[Jbugs] [engine] Crash when ..." or "[Jbugs] [jhs] Feature request ...." and let discussion ensue. Verified bugs get added to Trac. Perhaps we nominate a bug curator, who's soley responsible for recording bugs in Trac and informing the relevant party. I'll volunteer if you need me. That would certainly address some of the complexity you outlined: > As I understand it the bit that is currently holding up progress is how best to provide > authentication for users wanting to add tickets. Also, I don't think we'll ever convince everyone to stop reporting bugs on the Forum anyway (newcomers who don't know about Trac, or those who don't want to bother with a web interface, or who are worried they'd report a non-bugs, etc), so we'd need the Forum-to-Trac migration process, anyway. Another option is to provide public credentials, so that one needn't sign up to report bugs; that would remove some complexities and barriers (and raise other questions). > A single-sign-on model has also been proposed I do like the SSO idea. In particular, I like that idea that anyone who signs on to the Forum would get a Wiki home page, and anyone who has a Wiki home page would have his own svn repository to share and version code. That would help us grow our public codebase, which has all sorts of advantages. Also it would give us a more accurate picture of our community. -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
