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Re: Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting)


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:39:44 -0400
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:03:25PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> While the tracker does not accept input via email, it does send *out*
> an email (to a list) whenever a change is made to an issue.  This is
> vital functionality, of course.  You can read email to follow what's
> going on with bugs, then visit the web forms only when you need to
> make a comment or whatever.
> 
> (Of course, taking input via email would be even nicer.)

It's critical, IMO -- my experience of using mozilla and savannah's bug
tracker is that the annoyance of having to go to the web site and muddle
through the forms significantly decreased the likelihood that I would bother
(it was fine the first N times, but after a while I started to dread it).

-Miles
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"Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture
and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure,
and demoralizing.  On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the
future of the world depends." -Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"




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