Re: No bug tracker

[Raymond Toy]

On 3/23/23 13:36, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> There was a bugtracker at some point, but it was not so useful.
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 07:44:47PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > The scale of this project is also a factor here, and if it were a larger
> > project a bug tracking system might be more useful, although I don't really
> > have experience of this.
> To me that is the main factor here, no much point in such an
> infrastructure with such a small project.

I work on some small (one person)  and not so small open source projects 
that also have mailing lists. I like bug trackers because then I have a 
fairly easy way to find a bug instead of having to fish through tons of 
email with possibly incorrect subject lines that might be spread out 
over many threads to find the relevant discussion.  But this also 
requires discipline to discuss the bugs on the tracker instead of the 
mailing list.  And sometimes the mailing list is easier for bug 
discussion than a bug tracker. Hopefully someone will update the bug 
with links to the mailing list or summarizes the mailing list. But that 
means extra work.

I also don't have any qualms about closing bugs as wontfix or not-a-bug, 
as long as I explain (briefly) why.

But each project needs to do whatever works best for them....