On 15/04/07, Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Glynn Foster wrote:
> FWIW, we tried to do this with GNOME, and found it bloody awful. We may not
have
> done it properly in the first place (and that's more than likely) but it was a
> real pain trying to sync up the two databases, and we ended up polluting
bugster
> with a whole lot of crap. You'd really want a full time bug master to keep on
> top of all of this.
In general this is an exceedingly difficult (impossible?) problem to
solve, I doubt you were doing anything "wrong" - other than trying in
the first place ;-)
If I suggested we should run two parallel but separate 'master' SCMs for
ON, one inside Sun and one outside, and that we were going to allow
people to simultaneously make changes to either one and then try to glue
it all together into a consistent whole, I'd rightly be told that I was
nuts. Having two bug systems would be no different.
Perhaps, but the difference is that all of the code in the OpenSolaris
codebase has been audited, etc. Whereas all of the content in the bug
database has not. You don't place customer information, confidentially
secured materials, etc. into the OpenSolaris code whereas you do with
the bug database from what I understand.
Despite it being crazy, many other projects have to do exactly this
thing. So I think it is inevitable that a way to manage it will have
to be found.
--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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