Re: Re: bug tracking?

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 20 May 2003 11:01:21 +0900,
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > 
> > i'm familiar with bugzilla (not as an adamin but as a user :) and am
> > satisfied almost with it.  it's enough powerful.
> > but bugzilla has many configurations and we'll need to find out the
> > fitting one for our purpose.
> 
> I'm looking at it now. The first thing that jumps out at me is that all 
> users have to login to make a submission online.

iirc, the current sf system requires also account..?

> IMO that will make it less likely for people to submit reports. However 
> the rest of the system is very slick so I'm not sure what direction to 
> take. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn of the login as it seems to 
> be crucial to making sure the system works.

i don't think the account makes any problem.  any bug reporter should
be responsible also for answering / following the thread.  the
anonymous account makes it difficult.
also, if someone is lazy, there is still mailing list for help :)

> If we use bugzilla I will need full access to the mysql database on the 
> server. I could code something with less features in php. It would work 
> slower but it will work.
> 
> Of course I would much prefer to have access to the mysql database as I 
> can do some other funky things for the install docs then too. Like a 
> card rating system.
> 
> I have written to Jaroslav about this before but have never received an 
> answer. I realise that I could be a huge security risk but I'm happy to 
> sign some papers if that is what is required. I will send you my PO box 
> address privately if that needs to be done.
> 
> So my Suse friends. What does the boss say?

the alsa-project.org is managed by Jaroslav, and it's outside of
SuSE.  so, the permission you can take is up to Jaroslav.

i think it's possible to provide a server space for this by SuSE, too,
if necessary.  (for example, xfree86 cvs server is running on suse
machines.)


Takashi


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