bug tracker [was: Re: t-value]

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Apr-2008, Thomas Weber wrote:

| I think the current status is that Don Armstrong wanted to set a tracker
| up if he has time, but I'm not sure.

As I recall, he said he would try to set something up, but then I
never heard whether it was actually done and haven't had time to
follow up on it.

| > If you feel highly motivated by this issue, I think others here would
| > cheer you on if you worked on this..
| In case someone is really motivated: there has been no real discussion
| whether debbugs is really suited for Octave's needs, so if you know
| something better, by all means, go along with that.

Yes, but please discuss here what the capabilities of any candidate
are.  I think debbugs has most of the things I want.  Current versions
of bugzilla may also, except for the (apparent) requiremet of
establishing an account to submit a bug.  But I also seem to recall
that current bugzilla versions allow all operations on the bug
database to be handled by mail, so I assume that bug reports may also
be submitted by mail.  Does that also require an account?

Whatever we do, it would be very helpful for someone to manage the bug
tracker.  Unless it is really trivial, I don't think I have time to do
it.

jwe