Re: [Monotone-devel] bug reports?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:01:24AM -0400, graydon hoare wrote:
> Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Graydon, how would you like bug reports?
> > 
> > I can send email or I could upload them into savannah.  Personally, I
> > don't like the savannah bug tracking system...
> 
> that's a good question. I don't really *like* the savannah tracker
> either, on the other hand it's already there, and I think it's less
> likely to lose a bug than just keeping bugs in email folders. I think
> the savannah one will be my default choice unless you feel like
> setting up some other BTS.
> 
> really I've never used a bug tracking system I much liked. they always
> feel a bit un-integrated into the tools at hand, like you spend too
> much time getting information out of them and putting it back in. in
> the back of my mind it's been a thought to integrate bug tracking into
> monotone too (and produce a tighter bug -> testcase -> cert workflow)
> but that's pretty blue-sky at this point. it doesn't even understand
> how to read test results yet.

I've had good luck with Roundup, http://roundup.sf.net .  Basically
sane design, access by email and web, in Python, and with a clean
database and extension API.

-- Nathaniel

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