Re: [Dri-devel] Re: tuxkart, and bug reports..

[Alan H. <al...@fa...>]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:43:21 -0700, Daryll Strauss wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > True.
> > 
> > The other alternative is to completely close the bug-tracking system
> > and don't allow it. Forcing people to email.
> > 
> > It's currently what we do for XFree86 too anyway (no bug tracker) :)
> 
> Can you comment on how that works for XFree86?
 
Depends on your viewpoint. Some say it doesn't, others cope fine.

> The only thing the bug tracker really buys you is a way to make sure
> bugs aren't lost. If bugs are always fixed FIFO and there aren't so many
> that they queue gets large then you don't need a bug tracker.

I think the number of DRI users and therefore bug reporters are a
much smaller base than XFree86 as a whole, and we could probably
cope fine with the FIFO approach.

Alan.