Robert Goldman <address@hidden> writes:
Avdi Grimm wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:
Also, should we start tracking bug reports somewhere (worg), so that
they can be claimed, tested against, and repaired?
Not a bad idea. Normally I'd recommend just going with an established
bug tracker like Trac or Lighthouse, but since Org is so great for
managing tasks it seems only right that the developers should "eat
their own dogfood" by using Org to track tickets :-)
Actually, I'm not sure I necessarily agree with the notion of using Org
to track tickets. The reason is not that org mightn't be up to the job,
but that the use of org with git won't be up to it. systems like trac
and bugzilla are set up to allow outsiders to post bugs, but if we use
git, then we're really raising the bar for bug submission. Instead of
filling out a form, a bug reporter would now have to figure out how to
use git, pull the org file, modify it, and then either push it (which
would require someone to authorize him or her) or submit it to someone
else who would push it. That seems inappropriate to me --- when you're
developing software a good bug report is very valuable, and one
shouldn't turn them away.
Unless someone can figure out an easier way for people to submit bugs
with what worg has now, I'm inclined to say that trac or bugzilla would
be better.
Yes, you're correct the current method of contributing to worg is
definitely too high of a bar for bug reports, or feature requests. That
said once they were submitted, worg would be a good mechanism for
tracking reported bugs/features, and for publishing lists of said
reports on the web. Worg/org has the added advantage that it is already
familiar to the entire org community.
As you mention, the question seem to be: can we implement a simple
interface for reporting bugs/feature-recs which will?
1) work well with worg as it's currently used, and
2) which won't constantly be begging for enhancements until we're
re-implementing a full bug tracking system from scratch
I don't think this would be too difficult, say...
a simple web form, which could be embedded into one of the worg pages,
and could drop bug/feature-recs into an org-mode file under git.
Would anyone be up to trying to throw such a thing together? If only
I had some more time...