Re: Bug tracking system

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> [2005-04-13 15:50]:
> > >There was some discussion some time ago about a bug tracking 
> > system for 
> > >Xen.  Is there any plan on when that will be available?
> > 
> > I like to vote for the bug tracking system to come sooner 
> > versus later.  I have notice that there are several bugs that 
> > keep coming back up on the mailing list and if we had a bug 
> > track tracking system, we would be able to put it out once.  
> > Then as people have time, they could pick different bugs and 
> > supply fixes for them by assinging the bug to themselves.
> 
> We discussed this a bit at the summit. We have 'trac' set up and ready
> to go, but we weren't planning on announcing it until we fork off
> 3.0-testing around the end of May/ beginning of June. If there was
> strong demand, we'd obviously revist this, but my impression is that the
> mailing lists are working effectively and bugs generally get fixed
> pretty quickly. (Last week and this have been a bit tough because of the
> summit and now Usenix TC)
> 
> The other issue that was raised was whether we need to go with bugzilla
> to be able to integrate in to distro bug databases. We certainly prefer
> trac, but if we need the ability to assign bugs between databases, I
> guess we'll have to go with bugzilla.
> Any views?

The sooner a bug database is up, whether trac or bugzilla the better.

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Ryan Harper
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