Re: Bug tracking

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> I'm a little distressed that I had missed that security related patch
> earlier, so here's my proposal on how to cope with this:
> 

Actually, I did not even see/received any patches concerning inetutils
except the syslog one(that Sergey took care of).  Was it sent to this list?

> The FSF has setup some software that we are apparently allowed to use
> that will take a new incoming email and assign a ticket to it.  I'd
> like to wire bug-inetutils to be attached to that (or a similar
> system).
> 
> Then, I'd like to create an inetutils-discuss email list, where our
> usual chatter and such can go.
> 
> Any objections/thoughts/etc?  

inetutils-* are very low traffic,  comming with more list those not make
my life easier, or rather it does not solve the problem(from my point
of view).  Something missing in the projects that I'v maintain or help
maintain is a bug database: GNATS or Bugzilla.  High profile GNU projects
like gcc, binutils etc .. do this but they have the men power.  For
example when I was doing GNU/grep not glamourous as gcc,
but still, I could have use a database, lots of patches, PR were lost.

The second is testing suite, something that all programers love 8-)
So I was quite amaze that Sergey, went to the trouble of doing this
for GNU mailutils, impressive.

I do not know if savannah or the FSF offers this.

Jim Meyering seems to handle this quite well, but Jim is special 8-).