From: James Y K. <fo...@fu...> - 2008-12-16 23:00:34
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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. I don't think the bar to reporting the bug is the problem, it's to finding prior discussions about said bug. Mailing list archives simply aren't very good for that task. Furthermore, I seem to recall many instances of bugs I reported to the mailing list simply being tagged in some person (or people)'s mail files as things that need fixing, rather than being inserted into the BUGS file. Many of them did in fact get fixed, but who knows if some got misplaced/ignored. Automation is good, wanting to manually keep up a BUGS list just seems rather crazy, to me. Heck, even emacs has a bugtracker now! James |