Re: bug tracking

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:47 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  2-Mar-2010, Thomas Weber wrote:
>
> | I would re-visit the usage problems with the Savannah tracker. Why
> | didn't people use it. Bug submitters didn't use it as they were pointed
> | to the mailing list in about every document, but why didn't the
> | developers use the bug tracker?
>
> I think it may just be that we kept getting reports on the mailing
> list and we fell back into the old routine.  So maybe we just need to
> try harder to make the leap.
>

This was it, precisely. I was OK with the Savannah tracker. I thought
you disapproved of it.

In any case, I think that in order for the transition to be successful
we need to be strict and only fix bugs actually reported in the
tracker. When a bug report arrives at the mailing list, we shall point
out the reporter to the tracker. Anyone is free to transfer the bug
from ML to the tracker, but we need a handshake that it must be done
prior to fixing the bug.

If we all agree to this policy, all what is left is to vote for the
tracker. My vote goes for Savannah.

regards

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz