Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Sun Nov 01 17:19:23 +0100 2009: > Reformatted excerpts from Nicolas Pouillard's message of 2009-11-01: > > Have strong points against Ditz or this is also a lake of energy? > > Both, really. Ditz was an experiment, and after using it for a while I > decided it was more trouble than it was worth. I also realized that I > *did* want a centralized web site after all, and not necessarily a > complicated distributed thing, both because I want non-technical users > to be able to submit bug reports, and because development, in reality, > *is* centralized.
I think I see your point, however I think there is no less no more to centralize in a bugtracker than in a source code management tool. Indeed in most projects using a DVCS, they have a central repository, this does not reduce the benefits of distributed tools. Distributed bugtrackers does not necessary exclude having a central point. What I found cool about distributed bugtrackers is that the bug-closing action can follow the code that fixes the bug. Being in a branch, or being reviewed... About non-technical users, I think that just a mail (thread) on the mailing-list could suffice. Of course some web app can make things clearer. > (I had been doing some work on Sheila, which would've provided a web > frontent that people could use to submit bug reports, but even that > wouldn't be quite what I wanted.) > Having thought about it for a while, I think what I *really* want for > Sup is something that tracks bugs/feature requests at the feature branch > level (i.e. assumes that each feature branch provides a new feature or a > bugfix), has a web interface for non-technical users to submit bug > reports and for developers to browse/modify state on bugs, and which > uses email for discussion, like I did with Whisper. (And I would be fine > with it being git-specific.) Maybe Ditz is not very far from that. > I am now spending all my energy trying to keep myself from building such > a thing. Good luck on this :) -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
