[PD-dev] a bag for bugs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This is great, definitely needed.  While the gnats upgrade path should  
work, we could also use the bug tracker on the SourceForge site, which  
is already set up and ready to go.  I am not sure which software it is  
based on, but its nicely integrated on the same site as the CVS.

As for managing the bugs, I think we should start out with a limited  
group of people who can post bugs, those who can verify the bugs  
themselves.  Then once it becomes established and we have willing  
maintainers, we could open it up to bug submissions to the general  
public.

.hc

On Wednesday, Feb 4, 2004, at 11:59 America/New_York, Krzysztof Czaja  
wrote:

> hi devels,
>
> without much thinking about tools and structure, I have started
> building a database of bugs and buglets in the core of Pd (aka
> Miller's sources).  Before shaping it into a form suitable for
> a more general use, I would like first to collect as much data as
> I can, from pd-list, and from my experience.  Which is the easy
> part.
>
> The hard part, I think, is not just gathering reports, but
> managing them afterwards.  Usually, there would be a person
> `responsible' for validating a particular category of a report,
> and guiding the report through its lifetime in the database.  That
> person would either actually maintain the source, or closely
> cooperate with a maintainer.  Such setup might prove too formal,
> though, in case of the ``Miller's & co(mmunity)'' development
> model.  I do not know... perhaps, that model requires
> a `sync-person' tracking the releases, with Miller occasionally
> getting forwarded mailings or digests?
>
> The tool is gnats, currently, chosen for the sake of being able
> to start easily and locally, without bloating my system with
> apache, mysql, and what not.  Gnats is nicely designed, but for
> some odd reason hardly maintained anymore -- hence buggy, and
> largely abandoned outside of the freebsd world.  The transition of
> my local database into a public service, will probably mean
> importing data into some other bug tracker (requiring, hopefully,
> only a simple script to be written, or adapted).
>
> When more of the actual contents builds in, I will let you know.
> For the time being -- comments, please (and bug reports,
> of course).
>
> Krzysztof
>
>
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