Re: [bug-inetutils] issue tracker?

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>    > What would people think about setting up some kind of a bug/task
>    > tracker?  Was trying to catch up on mail, and patches, but
>    > quickly got lost.
>    >
>    > I don't have any preferences at all as to what to use, can either
>    > be a flat text file, or something like bugs.gnu.org.
>
>    +1 for debbugs.gnu.org.  Flat text file has a tendency to grow stale in
>    my experience, usually as a result of how they are maintained.
>
> Ok, then the question is how should we handle incoming bug reports?
> We use bug-inetutils for discussion, and bugs.  It seems that
> bugs.gnu.org has two modes, so called Exclusive, and Non-Exclusive.
> In the Exclusive mode "Every mail sent to your bug list that is not in
> response to an existing bug creates a new bug report", this would be
> far from ideal.  Non-Exclusive mode seems a bit cumbersome, since it
> would require a special address to be used for sending bugs.
>
> So either we move all discussions to another list, or setup a new list
> for bug reporting.
>
> See http://bugs.gnu.org/Using.html for details I suppose...

I don't care either way.  Btw, I just recalled that we have the option
of using the Savannah bug tracker.  Enabling that is one click away for
one of the admins...  it is not the best bug tracker in the world, but
it allows users to file bugs with history tracking.  For GnuTLS we use
it for users that want to file an "official bug", and it works fairly
well.

/Simon