[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6RC1 - Acquistions - possible bugs

[Mike Rylander]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Wills,Steve <wills at nelinet.net> wrote:
> Having a roadmap, version controlled source repository, and bug
> tracking/testing that are available to a volunteer community are all key
> components in successful OS, imho.
>
> This list has mentioned Bugzilla and Trac many time.  Is there a general
> preference?  My suggestion, when picking a tracking system is to suspend
> disbelief that it will be used and pick it on merit.  How to manage
> managing the managers is a separate issue from who to manage the bugs.
> Again, in my opinion.

On that score, I think trac has the lead over bugzilla for a couple reasons:

* it's already set up
* it's simpler
* it sits right on top of the authoritative source repo
* it's much MUCH easier to hack on if we need it to do more than the
stock version

IMO, as well.

--miker

>
> Steve Wills
>
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> Karen Schneider
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6RC1 - Acquistions - possible bugs
>
>>> Something that came to mind recently (w/respect to the "release
> process"
>>> thread) is that we could set up a Testing/Qualit key componay
> Assurance group of
>>> volunteers who, as one of their powers, would have Trac accounts for
>>> managing bugs like this. Other powers/responsibilities might be
> vetting
>>> bugs, reproducing bugs, adding tests to ensure bugs don't rear their
>>> ugly heads again, etc. Just trying to work out how we can help the
>>> broader community help the development team.
>
> There's a natural bridge here to the documentation process, as well.
> In the last DIG meeting we opened discussion about how to log bugs
> discovered in the documentation process. It would seem a good use of
> resources to empower some volunteers for Trac access, as part of the
> documentation workflow.
>
>
>
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