RE: Using Bugzilla. RE: G2 Lessons Learned

[Phillip Shelton <shelton usq edu au>]

As I replied to Malcolm yesterday,

It was only a suggestion from someone who has not had to work with any of
the current "solutions" and is not putting his hand up to help.

If Lampadas or Borgers are better then go with them by all means.

I was un-aware of just what bugzilla did and did not do. As Sander has
commented, it seems that is is not what you guys are looking for.

Phill

-----Original Message-----
From: Sander Vesik [mailto:Sander Vesik Sun COM]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2002 8:22 PM
To: Malcolm Tredinnick
Cc: gnome-doc-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Using Bugzilla. RE: G2 Lessons Learned


On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:55:03AM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> > Instead of using an existing Bugzilla, could you start your own Bugzilla
> > tree? (I am guessing that Bugzilla is something like CVS and you have
access
> > to some machine to put it onto.)
> > 
> > Thus using an exising tool to keep the data and an independent Doc
Managment
> > system?
> 
> All this bugzilla changing talk sounds like severe over-kill to me. If
> one of the only lessons we learn is that human resources for doing this
> sort of stuff is hard to come by, then we have made real progress.
> 
> A documentation management system, whether Lampadas or Borges or
> whatever, plus using existing GNOME bugzilla for tracking bugs in
> existing documentation (or complete lack of documentation when required
> by users) seems sufficient and economical.
> 

I think bugzilla is both an overkill and on the other hand doesn't have a
sufficently capable or friendly interface to do what we want/need.
Bugzilla essentially only has sense of 'who is doing what' and whetever it
is done or not. It doesn't have a way to present how far in progress
things are (or even track such), its abilities for grouping and dependency
tracking are just slightly better from a semimanual web page based
tracking. This doesn't mean we can't use bugzilla, just it would be better
to have something more suited to this instead.

This all IMHO, of course. 

> Malcolm
> 

	Sander

	you'll rescue me right?
	in the exact same way that they never did
	i'll be happy right?
	when your healing powers kick in



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