[gentoo-dev] Proposed Issuetracker via PEST

[Joshua Pollak]

Ok,

First off, I agree calling it issuetracker is a better idea than
bugtracker, because of the desire to handle ebuilds/feature
requests/etc. Also, I definately agree, an easy to use interface is very
important. That's mainly why I don't like bugzilla very much.

I think PEST would be the best system to use, I just came across it
yesterday when searching for bug tracking software. The reasons I
think its a good option are:

- Good looking, simple interface, should be easy to use
- Has advanced features so project members should be able to do what
they need.
- Written in PHP so its easy to modify
- Under active development and seems to have a decent sized community,
so its probably not going to go anywhere.

So if Thread and chadh would like to contact me about letting me set
something up, that would be cool. If anyone has any
suggestions/comments, let me know. I think I will start in the mean time
by setting up a test installation on my own server to see how hard it is
to install and see what the issues are.

-Josh


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:21:58PM +0100, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:22:04 -0500
> Joshua Pollak <pardsbane@××××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> > Something along the lines of Bugzilla/SF's features/phpBugTracker, etc,
> > should be fine, right? I could set it up on my own server, or I can set
> > it up somewhere else. If the project is willing to accept the work, once
> > done, I'll get started right away.
>
> See if you can't get in contact with chadh on how to set it up on
> cvs.gentoo.org (which perhaps should get a new alias: bugs.gentoo.org ?).
>
> We should have at least two modes for the bugtracker: end-user and
> developer. The full-blown bugzilla interface is a bit intimidating for
> first-time end-users, so they should by default get an easy-to-use
> interface.
>
> The regular developers should get the full-blown interface, I guess.
>
> The main thing about the bugtracker is that we should _USE_ it. So we'll
> just have to keep tweaking it until everybody uses it for adding ebuilds,
> bug reports, wishes, etc.
>
> In fact, we should perhaps rename it from "bugtracker" to "issuetracker",
> since we want to have it handle more than just bugs: we want all new
> ebuilds to be submitted through it, so that it can help us not forget half
> of the ebuilds that get submitted.
>
> Karl T
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