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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:28:28 -0500 |
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Joshua Pollak <pardsbane@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > In summary, usability is far and away the most important thing |
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> > > in a bug tracking/issue tracking system, and a objective analysis |
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> > > is probably in order. |
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> I agree usability is the most important issue, which is why I thought |
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> PEST was the best solution of the ones I could find. I had not heard of |
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> Roundup, gnats, or rt, but I'll check them out. I think Bugzilla and |
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> Debbugs both have serious usability issues. They are both very confusing |
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> to use and just plain messy and ugly. |
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You've never heard of gnats or rt? Wow. What did you find confusing |
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about debbugs? Have you ever used it? Did you look at the URL I |
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provided? I've been a Debian developer for many years (as well |
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as RedHat and other non-Linux) and find debbugs the 'best' of the |
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bug / issue tracking softwares I've used. One of the Debian developers |
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converted it for use with a postgresql database, if that is |
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relevant. |
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I still place my votes in (this order): debbugs, roundup. I don't know |
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PEST and I am not a fan of PHP (I prefer real languages like Python |
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and C) -- there's more to life than the web, and it would appear that |
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PEST is web-only. debbugs is mail and web, same as roundup. |
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> Perhaps the simplified bugzilla interface is cleaner and easier to use, |
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> but why subject end users to a limited interface when there are systems |
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> out there that are easy to use and powerful, in the same interface? |
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I agree here very much. |
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> > the things we need to work effectivly. I also think none of the Gentoo |
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> > developers will have problems learning Bugzilla if they set there mind |
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> > to it. |
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> I have no doubt that is true, but I respectfully disagree that this is |
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> something the Gentoo developers should be spending their time with. A |
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> bug tracking system should be quick and intuitive, not something that |
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> takes a long while to learn, with a complicated interface. At this |
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> point, I think just having a database where bugs/ebuilds/etc can start |
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> being registered is far more important than having an interface that |
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> takes time to learn. I mean, if it takes a while to learn, why would |
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> people bother using, when then can just keep going as they are? |
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