On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, David Dawes wrote: > This comes up from time to time. The bottom line is that having an > XFree86 bug tracking system is of limited use unless the XFree86 developers > use it. Since that's the group that it would impact the most, that's > where the motivation for it should come from. BTW, is there an official > Linux kernel bug tracking system?
Yes. It's name is RedHat. ;) While the main development team may not be tracking bugs, the corporations which have significant Linux efforts (RedHat, IBM, etc.) are. The main development effort benefits from that infrastructure without acknowledging it. Besides, "what Linux does" is not necessarily the "right" answer. Many people complain that Linux development is not scaling because the kernel complexity is exceeding the ability of one person to grasp it. And I hope that no one is suggesting that XFree86 should use BitKeeper ... The *BSD development teams provide examples of running and maintaining a project over long periods of time--even longer than Linux. These projects *do* have bug tracking systems. However, this is a political problem, not technical. Bug tracking will appear when lack of it annoys the development team. So, your best bet to get a bug tracking system implemented is simply to file lots of bug reports in the mailing lists until it annoys the developers. ;) -a _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
