[PD-dev] pdpedia bugs [was: Re: [ pure-data-Bugs-1856583 ] Thumbnail creation is not working]

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sun Dec 23 22:21:22 CET 2007


On Dec 23, 2007, at 2:47 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> On Dec 22, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>
>>> SourceForge.net hat gesagt: // SourceForge.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bugs item #1856583, was opened at 2007-12-22 13:17
>>>> Category: pdpedia
>>>
>>> Should we deal with pdpedia bugs at Sourceforge? Personally I'm
>>> against it.
>>
>> As one of the main users of the bug tracker, I am strongly in favor
>> of it.  We have a bug tracker, why use another?  And what harm does
>> it do to use that bug tracker for pdpedia bugs?
>
> Before asking for reasons why pdpedia bugs should not be on
> Sourceforge, I think, giving reasons on why they *should* be there
> would be appropriate.
>
> So far the SF tracker has been used for bugs in Pd and extensions,
> i.e. in software, including the software's documentation.
>
> pdpedia is a project separate from the developer's repository. It has
> it's own website, so bugs could be dealt with using a pdpedia bug wiki
> page. We also don't track bugs on pd.info with SF, we don't track
> mailing list issues there etc. I think, mixing developer oriented bugs
> with bugs in remote websites doesn't help with keeping track and a
> clear view of software/doc bugs. (No, and I don't think, that the
> fact, that pdpedia contains texts about Pd automatically qualifies it
> to use the SF tracker. Wikipedia bugs don't belong to the Linux bug
> tracker neither.)
>
> Of course that is just my view. I am very able to accept the views of
> others and I won't veto against pd.info, pdpedia, pd-list etc. bugs,
> but changes like that *must be discussed* here first, not just decided
> by one person alone.

Because the pure-data is setup, it works, and people know how to use  
it.  Verbose bug reports are always useful, for pdpedia and  
anything.  If anyone wants to set up another bug tracker for pdpedia,  
I won't stop them.

.hc

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