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On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:06, you wrote: |
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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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I dunno why I haven't heard of gnats and rt, perhaps either I've been living |
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under a rock, or I've used them without knowing it. Most bugs I've filed have |
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been with SourceForge projects, Mozilla, and Debian, so those are the systems |
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I'm most familiar with. |
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I have no doubt Debbugs is the most feature full of the systems, and I do |
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like the email interface, however, I find the web interface is complicated |
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and busy, and very hard to do anything with. Systems like Roundup (I just |
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took a look at it) and PEST are (in my opinion) much easier for both novices |
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and experts, mainly because you spend so much less time looking for things. |
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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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This is a good argument, and I only chose PEST because I prefer PHP to Perl. |
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However, Python is definately a good language to implement in, and if email |
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and command-line interfaces are desired, I think Roundup is a great solution. |
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Although I do hear PHP has GTK bindings now... ;) |
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So I change my proposal to implement the bug tracker in Roundup, to satisfy |
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the demand for an email interface. |
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-Josh |
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