Re: bug tracking

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:06:57PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  2-Mar-2010, Jordi Guti rrez Hermoso wrote:
> 
> | On 2 March 2010 15:36, S ren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > Anyway, these days Launchpad [1] is also an option as it is now Free
> | > software. I am not sure, if it works better than Bugzilla, but it does
> | > support reply-by-mail quite well (at least in my experience).
> | 
> | I was going to submit a vote for this too. It's AGPLv3, and although
> | it also requires logging in to report bugs, I find that it has overall
> | a lot cleaner interface than the ancient Bugzilla.
> 
> Does that mean that we install our own instance of the launchpad bug
> tracker, or do we have to have a project at launchpad.net to use it?
> 
> I don't really want to have another project page.  People are already
> confused by octave.sf.net (it would be better if that were named
> octave-forge.sf.net...).
> 
> As a GNU project, I think it is best to have most of the Octave
> project hosted at savannah.  I would use the bug tracker there as
> well, but my experience with it was not great.  OTOH, maybe we should
> revisit that?  Maybe the biggest problem is that we still have all our
> information pointing people to the address@hidden mailing list.  Maybe
> we should just migrate to using the savannah tracker anyway.  At least
> it does not require login to submit a report and it prompts people for
> some info about the version of Octave, etc.  Plus, it is already set up
> and we don't have to maintain it.

I would go with Savannah for the start. Easiest to set up (it already
*is* set up) and there's no question that it's just a tracker and not
the primary development platform (Launchpad is pretty encompassing).

The biggest issue is developer discipline: bugs belong in the tracker,
not on the mailing list (the tracker can forward them).

        Thomas