[Sc-devel] bug tracker

[Dan Stowell]

2007/6/1, nescivi <nescivi at gmail.com>:
> Hiho,
>
> On Friday 01 June 2007 01:17:33 Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
> > I think it could work well. Maybe for the beginning it would be
> > useful to send a one liner mail to sc-dev that a bug has been
> > committed, so that we get used to have a look.
>
> I think that that is generally a good idea, as I rarely think about all these
> online forums that I *could* go to, when I have a moment of free time.
> So a notification when a bug is opened and when it gets closed, would be
> great. The notification should of course contain a link to the said bug in
> the tracker, to speed up looking for it.

SF.net's issue tracker includes a notification feature which can send
emails (yes, with links), so, for example, if everyone agreed to start
using the bugtracker all bugtracker activity could easily be forwarded
to sc-devel.

In various other projects I have found SF.net's bugtracker useful.
It's very basic but gets the job done. When I first started using SC I
assumed that the bug tracker was used (since it's already there!
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=54622 ) and started posting
suggestions, which were of course ignored...

A 'formal' bugtracking system will only work if it is genuinely used,
i.e. if the people who actually DO (not just suggest!) the majority of
bugfixing / new features find it useful and are willing to buy into
that way of doing it. Otherwise they will tend to forget about its
existence within a matter of weeks and return to the easy way, i.e.
emailing; and the tracker will once again be a meaningless wilderness.

Dan