Re: address@hidden: Bug#418158: octave2.9: poissinv error]

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <address@hidden> [2007-04-09 19:29]:

> On 10-Apr-2007, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> 
> | >I don't plan to fix this problem myself, but would consier patches to
> | >libcruft/slatec-fn/d9lgit.f or related subroutines.
> | 
> | That would be a difficult job for me.  But if this bug gets registered
> | somewhere, maybe someone else will notice and correct it.
> 
> [I'm moving this part of the discussion to the maintainers list. --jwe]
> 
> I think this is a good time to start discussing what we can do about
> bug tracking for Octave.  Up until now, I've been happy to deal with
> bugs just by keeping a folder of messages sent to the address@hidden
> mailing list.  When a bug is fixed or I don't plan to fix it myself,
> I delete the message.  But then we don't really have a useful public
> record of bugs that have been reported bug not fixed.
> 
> Do people on the list have any suggestions for good bug tracking
> software?  I'd like to be able to interact with it via email, but the
> archive of bugs should be accessible on the web.
> 
> It seems that the Debian bug tracking system might have what we need.
> Is it easy to use the Debian bug tracking system outside of the
> Debiain project?  How easy/hard is it to setup and maintain?  Is there
> something better?

The Debian BTS is available in as the debbugs package.  I have never
installed it, so I cannot really tell whether it is easy to use and maintain
or not.  However, when reading the file
/usr/share/doc/debbugs/README.Debian, I have the impression that debbugs
does not work out of the box.  Besides that, the Debian BTS was conceived
with Debian and its packages in mind.  I am not sure it would be suitable
for Octave.

You might also consider Bugzilla, although I am not sure it will suit you.
Another possibility would be Request Tracker [1].  It seems to have all
features you are looking for: email gateway and a web interface.  It is
being used in the Debian project to track admin- and keyring-related
requests [2].  Request Tracker is open-source and available in Debian as the
request-tracker6.3 package.

[1] http://bestpractical.com/rt
[2] http://rt.debian.org (login as "guest" with password "readonly")

-- 
Rafael