From: PCMan <pcm...@gm...> - 2013-07-28 11:10:02
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Stephan Sokolow <gma...@sp...> wrote: > Hmm. Well, in that case, I suppose my only complaint is that I find even > Bugzilla to have a more comfortable UI than SourceForge's issue tracker. > > (Bugzilla may have quite the learning curve, but once I got used to it, > I found it comfortable. SourceForge's issue tracker just never seems to > get comfortable.) > > However, keep in mind that, by bringing my mistaken assumption to your > attention so you could correct it, I've become part of a small minority > of users. > > Unless SourceForge somehow makes a clean break between whatever they > currently offer and their old bug tracker in peoples' minds, it's a > problem that's going to drag on willingness to participate among > potential new community members. > > (The "if you need to personally respond to clarify/correct something", > then the solution is broken because there will be many others who are > affected and don't contact you about it." principle.) > > On 13-07-28 06:17 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Stephan Sokolow has written on Saturday, 27 July, at 22:12: >>> ...plus, the fact that SourceForge automatically closes bugs that have >>> lain dormant for too long is a major discouragement and smacks of >>> assuming that everyone wants the CADT model. >> >> First, SourceForge closed the bugs only marked as Pending, not Open >> ones. Second, it doesn't do that for long enough time, I marked few bugs >> as Pending last year and they were never closed. I suppose they got few >> requests to disable the feature so they've disabled it. >> >> Cheers! >> Andriy. I'm going to attend an open source conference and give a speech on Aug 3. People from our local open source communities will go there and I'll meet some friends there. If I can find someone to host bugzilla for us, I mean our own server, is this acceptable for you guys? |