hi all,
sorry for not replying to Maurizio's original posting...
It seems to me, that Pd does need some kind of a central bug tracking system. Has anybody any experience in setting such for a small project having a few dozen dedicated users willing to report the bugs? There are:
- bugzilla: sort of a standard, but too heavy, I guess,
- gnats (used in libc, emacs, freebsd, apache, ...),
- debianic bt tool, also in kde (formerly in gnome too, but now they switched to bugzilla),
- samba's jitterbug: light, with a simple, yet nice web interface,
and many more to choose from...
Krzysztof
Hi.
Can't you use the bug tracking system of the SF pure-data project? I know it's primarily a repository for externals but I guess there is a way to separate bug reports.
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.
hi Maurizio,
certainly, this is one of the options. These are my doubts, though:
1. Pd is not a SourceForge project -- if I read things well, currently there is a Pd branch forming at SF, so perhaps bug reports there should remain in this branch domain?
2. Am I wrong again, or is SourceForge Tracker a closed-source, corporate software?
Krzysztof
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote: ...
Can't you use the bug tracking system of the SF pure-data project?
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
currently there is a Pd branch forming at SF, so perhaps bug reports there should remain in this branch domain?
I assume that people of the SF projects reads this list too.
What are the reasons of this branch?
Regards,
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:
I assume that people of the SF projects reads this list too.
What are the reasons of this branch?
Hi Maurizio,
I already outlined the reason in my reply sent to Krzysztof.
I do not see it as a branch per se, as I am not planning to make any releases from it. It is more or less a study of how to organize contributions to pd.
If all goes well, we wont see further feature requests from highly skilled programmers on the pd list, but they can immediatly express their ideas in source code which goes into this repository, and if agreed upon probably will make it into a pd release.
But I can't guarantee that this will work out finally, or just produce, like K. says "more confuzion" ...
Guenter
PS: yes, we can use the BT system from SF, its currently not used at all.