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-
-# Savannah Trackers, Open Issues, debbugs
-
-There are the Savannah trackers. Nobody really likes them.
-
-There is a proposal to add/move to <http://debbugs.gnu.org/>. It can be
-operated by email, Debian people (developers and users) already know how to use
-it.
-
-There are the [[Open_Issues]] pages. This is basically just free-form text
-enriched by some tags for grouping, editable via the web and through Git
-commit. [[tschwinge]] added this to the set, and/but mostly is the sole user
-of it, even though casually there are a few other people contributing, and
-surely these pages do show up in web searches. A more traditional system (like
-the Savannah trackers or the new debbugs) do have their advantages, too, so
-perhaps there's a niche for both these and the [[Open_Issues]].
-
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-31:
-
- <tschwinge> So. Savannah trackers vs. Open Issues vs. debbugs. Any input?
- <youpi> I like *both* open issues and debbugs
- <youpi> open issues is good for exposing things that people may encounter
- in other situations
- <youpi> while debbugs is useful to actually work on a bug
- <tschwinge> youpi: The advantage of debbugs being the email interface and
- the well-known procedure, or something else?
- <youpi> email interface, which nicely flows into a mailing list
- <youpi> the savannah bug updates suffer from the additional layout
- <tschwinge> How does one decide what to put in a debbug and what in an Open
- Issue page?
- <youpi> I'd say it's not exclusive at all
- <youpi> like, a bug on a specific case can start as debbug, and as we
- discover it's more general and will not be fixed immediately, get an open
- issue page
- <youpi> and conversely, when we know some shortcoming, start with an open
- issue, and if some bugs are submitted which are actually due to it,
- cross-link
- <tschwinge> OK.
- <youpi> (some general short coming I mean, like SIGINFO)
- <tschwinge> And we would keep the current stuff in the trackers, and let
- these ``get empty'' gradually (it'll be years...) ;-) or migrate the
- remaining issues?
- <tschwinge> What we can do is inhibiting the creation of new issues in the
- trackers.
- <youpi> I'd say move
- <youpi> else they will be forgotten
- <tschwinge> Hrm.
- <antrik> actually, I considered creating a track-like plugin for ikiwiki,
- as both the popularity of trac and the usefulness of open_issues show
- that something wiki-like is actually more useful than a rigid traditional
- bugtracker. but I'm not really willing to do the work, which is why I
- didn't propose it before :-)
- <antrik> err... trac-like
- <youpi> yes, the wiki part is really useful to keep a good summary of the
- issue
- <tschwinge> antrik: Same for me. I always hoped that someone would do
- it... :-)
- <antrik> hehe
- <tschwinge> antrik: But, as you surely know, this email parsing business is
- just too ugly to do realiable, etc.
- <antrik> youpi: my point is that adding a few additional bits (like a
- comfortable tagging functionality, and some mail interface) could turn
- into a full-blown tracker unifying the advantages of both... but as I
- said, I'm not really willing to do the work :-)
- <youpi> additional to open_issue you mean?
- <youpi> yes, but like you say :)
- <antrik> tschwinge: hm... seems to work well enough it debbugs
- <youpi> debbugs just piles things
- <youpi> and has a few commands
- <youpi> you'd still need the web interface to edit the wiki part for
- instance
- <antrik> of course. that wouldn't change at all
- <antrik> (except for adding a tagging GUI perhaps)
- <antrik> (debbugs of course is not the only mail-operable bugtracking
- system... there are a number of others -- and I heard rumors even
- bugzilla grew a mail interface now...)
- <youpi> antrik: a .mdwn diff should however be sent to the bug for
- information
- <youpi> atm, what happens sometimes is somebody saying something here on
- #hurd, tschwinge turning that into an open_issue, and it does not show up
- on the mailing list
- <tschwinge> debbugs surely has the advantage that it is available (nearly)
- right now.
- <mattl> RT (request tracker) and ikiwiki play quite nicely together.
- <tschwinge> mattl: You'Re using that at GNU/FSF/somewhere, right?
- <mattl> you can close tickets from the wiki, and RT has a good command line
- interface, email interface and web interface.
- <mattl> tschwinge: yeah, we use RT and ikiwiki.
- <mattl> RT for all FSF communications, and ikiwiki for internal organising.
- <mattl> RT is not the easiest thing to set up, but works pretty well once
- it's running.
-
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-19:
-
- <antrik> tschwinge: BTW, what happened to the plan of killing help-hurd?
- <antrik> (and possibly some other lists)
- <tschwinge> antrik: That plan got stalled, obviously. ;-)
- <tschwinge> antrik: Now, I had proposed to use hurd-dev for development,
- and turn bug-hurd into a debbugs bug reportling list. That proposal has
- not heard any supportive/unsupportive votes yet.
- <tschwinge> hurd-devel. That's the name.
- <tschwinge> And turn off hurd-devel-readers. And turn off help-hurd.
- <tschwinge> And web-hurd.
- <tschwinge> Keep l4-hurd.
- <antrik> yeah, I haven't replied regarding bug-hurd vs. hurd-devel, as I'm
- not quite sure myself
- <antrik> on one hand, a dedicated bug list can be convenient; on the other
- hand, this kind of splits always causes unnecessary overhead IMHO
- <antrik> also, hurd-devel would obviously be *only* for development, so in
- this scenario we actually would *need* to keep something like help-hurd
- as well...
- <antrik> I think I'd prefer the non-exclusive mode for debbugs... would
- have to check again how it works exactly though :-)
- <tschwinge> antrik: I quite liked that exclusive mode for it automatically
- archives discussions grouped by threads for easy reference.
- <tschwinge> antrik: And, the very most of bug-hurd emails are ``issues'' of
- some sort: bug report, patch (that needs to be tracked until it is
- applied, etc.
- <antrik> tschwinge: exclusive mode would just mean that people would take
- most of these discussion elsewhere, and the bug list would only be used
- when someone explicitly wants something tracked as a bug...
- <antrik> ideally, the bug tracker should only track things if explicitly
- CCed. ideally, it should be possible to forward mails that have been
- posted without CC, so they can be tracked retroactively...
- <tschwinge> antrik: Why do you think that people would take discussions
- elsewhere?
- <antrik> because most people don't consider it useful to put every random
- question or remark in an issue tracker
- <antrik> IMHO it should be easy to turn messages into tickets/followups;
- but it should not happen automatically
- <tschwinge> What if people wouldn't even notice that their issues is kept
- in a tracker, too?
- <draculus> It might send a notification of some sort?
- <antrik> I once posted to a list with RT in exclusive mode, and quite
- frankly, I considered it rather strange to get a ticket created for my
- message :-)
- <antrik> tschwinge: that would only be useful if you always close tickets
- for irrelevant or finished discussions, mark duplicates etc. -- and this
- would have to happen silently, without noise for most other people
- following the list...
- <antrik> tschwinge: are you sure you want to do that?... :-)
- <tschwinge> Yes.
- <tschwinge> Because that way we don't lose so much stuff as we currently
- do.
- <antrik> well, the decision is up to you in that case...
- <tschwinge> In fact, probably less than manually archiving the content, as
- I'm doing now, partially.
- <tschwinge> antrik: Well, I'm just out for getting some comments.
- <antrik> it would further reduce our bus factor though :-(
- <tschwinge> That already is low enough that it doesn't matter anymore...
- <tschwinge> antrik: So, to sum up, you'd use non-exclusive mode, but are
- not actively opposed to exclusive mode as long as it doesn't too much
- disturbe any procedures you're currently using?
- <antrik> well, if it happens mostly in the background, I don't see why
- anyone should be opposed...
- <antrik> just make sure people posting to the list don't get a "ticket
- created" message in response :-)
- <antrik> it would make it harder though for people to explicitly track
- issue they are interested in I fear
- <antrik> when using non-exclusive mode, and people explicitly CC things to
- the tracker, which sends a notice about a ticket being created, everyone
- sees that and can act accordingly. if everything happens in the
- background, few people would even think about it...
- <antrik> so non-exclusive mode probably needs more effort to keep in order;
- but it would be more useful too...
- <tschwinge> Well, but with exclusive mode, people don't lose anything
- compared to the current state, do they?
- <antrik> tschwinge: probably not compared to the current state... but
- possibly compared to a well-used non-exclusive mode :-)
-
-
-# Further Systems
-
- * ikiwiki
-
- * <http://ikiwiki.info/tips/integrated_issue_tracking_with_ikiwiki/>
-
- * <http://ikiwiki.info/todo/Better_bug_tracking_support/>
-
- * <http://ikiwiki.info/todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies/>
-
- * <http://ikiwiki.info/todo/Updated_bug_tracking_example/>
-
- * <http://bugseverywhere.org/>