From: Robert G. <rpg...@si...> - 2008-12-16 23:24:55
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Thiemo Seufer wrote: > James Y Knight wrote: >> On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Christophe Rhodes wrote: >>> What I would say we actually have a deficiency of is people triaging, >>> reproducing and fixing bugs -- "last developer standing", indeed. (In >>> my ideal case, the people triaging and fixing bugs should be the same >>> people affected by the bugs). >> Right now, people reproducing the bugs mail the mailing list, after >> which, said reproduction gets lost in the mists of time. If there is a >> bugtracker, all correspondence regarding a given bug is archived in >> the same place, on the bugtracker. That is the value of a bugtracker. > > That's the theory. In practice we had an issue tracker on sourceforge > and it served as a /dev/null for bug reports. > The trackers on sourceforge are pretty rotten. they really don't compare to having your own trac or bugzilla install. |