[PD-dev] sf bug tracking

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Mar 4 18:15:49 CET 2003


Using TCL as an example 
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=10894&atid=110894), they have 
about 80 Categories (Variables... dde package... http package) and the 
Groups are all version numbers.  I think you can also use Groups to 
represent branches, i.e. pd from MSP and pd-extended (with CVS patches).

In the Tcl project, the Categories and Groups are quite specific.  I 
think to do it like this, you need to have the developers 
re-categorizing and regrouping the bugs as they look through them.  The 
bug submitter would be encouraged to take a guess, then whoever reviews 
the bug would change the Category and Group as they saw fit.  I think 
this would be nice since you could really narrowly represent what that 
bug affected.  Plus  I think that it will be common that the developer 
will have to change the Category or Group that the bug was originally 
submitted under.

And yes, I think there could be platform-specific Categories for bugs 
that only affect that platform.  But that means we might have to have 
duplicate categories for each platform, i.e. All GUIs, MacOS X GUI, 
Windows GUI, Linux GUI, etc.

.hc

On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 09:56 America/New_York, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> guenter geiger said this at Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:50:19 +0100:
>
>>> Users for BugTracker
>>> 	i.e. people who can have bugs assigned to them (everyone?)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I think so. If anyone does not want to receive bugs, tell so.
>> We could even think of sending them to the pd-dev list, but I think
>> a lot of users are subscribed so it could generate unwanted additional
>> traffic.
>
> Okay, this part suggests another way of dividing things... it might be
> appropriate for some platform-specific categories(?). Frank (for 
> example)
> might not want to be bothered by MacOSX bugs, while I might prefer to
> ignore Windows-based reports...
>
> I know nothing about BugTracker... would this be possible?
>
> adam
>
>
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