From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: Bug tracking system Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:02:35 -0500 Message-ID: <20050413230235.GC27571@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: xen-devel , Stephanie Glass List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org * Ian Pratt [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. -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx (512) 838-9253 T/L: 678-9253 ryanh@us.ibm.com