On 29/09/09 13:26, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Generally bug trackers reduce work. They consolidate bugs/feature > requests in one place, people can easily search for already filed bugs > or see that they're filed already and not bother you again.
I absolutely agree as far as bugs are concerned, and features where there is a patch or some other concrete implementation plan. Where I am less convinced is with pie-in-the-sky requests for features and enhancements - it is all to easy for those to arrive at a rate much greater than they are dealt with and the bug database to descend into a vast mire of enhancement requests which have virtually zero chance of ever being acted on. > When I've become interested in helping with some application the bug > trackers is usually a very good place to start for getting an idea of > what needs to be done or what features are wanted. And when I'm > maintaining something I very much like getting lots of enhancements > requests. I can prioritize them and turn them into a TODO list. I see that as potentially quite a dangerous approach unless somebody is rigorously triaging the feature requests as they come in and closing out the bad ideas - just because somebody has asked for something doesn't mean it should be done and if a newbie just turns up and starts implementing features that somebody somewhere once requested there is every chance that they will get dispirited when their enhancements are then turned down. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
