Re: BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At 29 Oct 2002 10:19:03 -0500, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > I certainly appreciate these arguments, however, I would appreciate it > (as I think would others) if you could briefly enumerate what > separates bugcomm from the others. That is, which design issues does > bugcomm try to correct; just call

Re: BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-29 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> IMHO, if the design of a software package sucks, it isn't worth > improving, even if the implementation is elegant, beautiful, simple, > and smart. Especially when the goal is different from yours, there is > no point where you can contribute. > > That's why I started BugCommunicator. I surveyed

Re: BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-28 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
> When I was a young programmer, I thought code was the most > important. But I considered what made GRUB so nice, and I realized there > was a much more important thing, that is to say, a design. How to design > a software package is a much bigger problem than how to > implement it. This is absol

Re: BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:51:42 +0100 (CET), Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, nothing in particular is bad with bugcomm. The only thing is, that > there are already a large number of bug reporting tools. If there is a > special thing, which you don't like about the existing tools,

Re: BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-28 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
> At Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:14:27 +0100 (CET), > Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What about bugzilla or mantis (php/mysql)? They are well-known, >> stable, and have a lot of features? > > I'd like to hear your opinion about bugcomm rather than rivals. What is > bad with bugcomm? Wel

Re: BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:14:27 +0100 (CET), Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about bugzilla or mantis (php/mysql)? They are well-known, stable, > and have a lot of features? I'd like to hear your opinion about bugcomm rather than rivals. What is bad with bugcomm? Okuji ___

Re: BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-28 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
o say in this mail is that now might be a good time when we > start using BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS instead of Savannah's, because > it is more or less stable during testing, although it still lacks some > features I want to have. If no one objects, I'll register GRUB on it. &

BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS

2002-10-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
nce of NIIBE Yutaka (aka gniibe), BugCommunicator has a BTS which runs BugCommunicator itself at the URL <http://bugcomm.enbug.org/>. What I want to say in this mail is that now might be a good time when we start using BugCommunicator as a GRUB BTS instead of Savannah's, because it is more or les