more work to be done....
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at nts.umn.edu
Thu May 17 19:11:51 GMT 2001
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>
> > > But... why not use an actual bug tracking system? It may be more effort to
> > > set up, but in the long run it may be a better solution.
> >
> > Tridge even wrote a bug tracking systems once. The problem is, our
> > development model doesn't match the bug-tracking model. We don't assign
> > priorities to bugs or bugs to coders. We each tackle the problems which
> > growl at us loudest and which we are most capable of taming.
>
> Ah...this is an excellent point. I'm not really worried about assigning
> priorities to bugs. I'm just tired of having to write. "Known
> bug in 2.X.X ...fixed in CVS" Users would appreciate this as well
> so they don;t spend time tracking down known issues.
The only difference between this and a BBS type-o-thang is that folks
would have a place to enter comments, a la slashdot. Perhaps, instead of
a slashdot sort of thing, people could mail comments to an address like
samba-buglist at samba.org. The subject would contain the bug number and
the message would be attached to the bug for *optional* reading. This
might cut down on "anonymous coward" messages.
Point is, when we come across a bug we often need lots of input from the
field to nail it. This would provide a mechanism for gathering such
information without clogging the samba-tech list.
Having said that, there are also advantages to discussing bugs on the tech
list, and there are also issues with managing something like a BBS.
I guess I'm tossing ideas to see if they land face up.
Chris -)-----
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