Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed Issuetracker via PEST

[Joshua Pollak]

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to like how debbugs works but
> you don't like the web interface.  It would seem to me that the web
> interface to a system as fairly simple as debbugs would be easy enough
> to alter if you didn't like it.  However, you still didn't mention
> whether or not you've looked at http://bugs.debian.org -- personally,
> I find the interface *easier* to use than any other.  Below is an

To me the bug.debian.org interface (Yes, I've looked at it and I'm fairly 
familiar with it) is just a console interface dumped to HTML form. It really 
doesn't take advantage of the graphical nature of the web, and I'm not 
talking about flashing gif's or anything, I mean Tabluar display of the bugs 
(I'm big on this), quickly changing how the bug listing is sorted (age, 
severity, class, project, whatever), easy filtering, etc. Ok, so bugs are 
categorized when you do a search in bug.debian.org, but its not all that 
great. As far as I can tell, there are 5 bugs on 2 full, busy, hard to read 
pages worth of scrolling for the python2.1 package... With something with a 
better gui, those 5 bugs could be represented on 5 lines, no scrolling, and 
would be easier to get a handle on.

There is some serious stuff lacking in the ease of use field for debbugs. But 
I agree, its very powerful. Basically, I think Debbugs falls into the same 
category as bugzilla: Large, hard for newbies to use, and definately not all 
that user friendly for experts either, even if they know what they are doing.

> I haven't used roundup for more than "I got it working", but it appears
> to be OK, and a much simpler code base than debbugs.

Simpler code base is a real bug plus.

> Oh, and Python does, of course, have GTK bindings.  I use them
> every day at my work.

Of course, I was just joking when I mentioned PHP's GTK bindings. ;)