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From: Joshua Pierre <joshua@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A wishlist
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 05:28:13
Message-Id: 20011016192849.A32545@swool.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] A wishlist by Mikael Hallendal
1 > About Bugzilla:
2 >
3 > Bugzilla is a set of cgi-scripts. Just because the default setup is hard
4 > to learn doesn't mean that it can't be made easier. I like the
5 > default-interface since I've taken the time to learn it (it's very
6 > powerful). But I don't think that we should require our users to learn
7 > it. I therefor propuse that we make a couple of simplified interfaces:
8 >
9 > * Submit a bugreport: An easy interface where you can state which
10 > package, version, error.
11 >
12 > * Submit a featurerequest: These gets tagged with keyword FEATURE.
13 >
14 > * Submit a todo: Set team, priority, what should be done. tagged with
15 > TODO.
16 >
17 > Ximian has such a interface for simple bugreports:
18 > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/simple-bug-guide.html
19 >
20 > And we can generate nice summarys like:
21 > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/evo-report.cgi
22 >
23
24 Definately, Ximian make Bugzilla very easy to use so I am guessing it can be
25 both powerful and a much easier tool to use than the wiki.
26
27 Hopefully we can get this up before 1.0/rc6 :)
28
29 Anyway, just my two cents to say that I support Bugzilla and the use of it in
30 Gentoo.
31
32 Joshua Pierre
33 --
34 You can do it, you can do it all night long