From: Aaron G. <pro...@ta...> - 2002-10-29 12:44:05
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Behold, Matthew Wilcox <wi...@de...> hath decreed: > i find it fascinating that there are so many people on this list who want > to see a bug tracking system, but don't feel able to keep a list of bugs > themselves. why is that? expecting andy to set it up seems unreasonable. >=20 By no means does the development maintainer have to also maintain the bugtracking system or the webpage. In many projects these are handled by different people. This might be an opportunity for those with less coding skills to contribute more to the project. An official bug-tracking system can be very beneficial to all involved. It lets the developers keep track of what they need to work on, what others are working on, what's already been fixed, etc. to avoid=20 duplication of work, and to allow for prioritization of bugs. It lets non-developer testers and part-time bugfixers see the status of bugs, see if a bug they found is already known or new, etc. so that they don't have to search through the mail archives and/or burden the list with a known problem. I think the web page does need someone to update and maintain it regularly. If you go to http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ there are not even any links to http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/ where the source code is served. Anyone not familiar with sourceforge won't understand where to get the kernel patches. There's not a lot of other information at the home page, which could be useful towards attracting more people to test and develop alike. I also second the notion of having the list set up to automatically fill in the Reply-To header with the list's address. --=20 Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org "From fullness, aspect. From aspect, being. From being, emptiness." =20 |