[Xesam] Public Issue Tracker

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2008/12/14 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>

> 2008/12/14 Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com>
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I've been lamenting the lack of an issue tracker on xesam.org for quite
>> some
>> time.
>>
>> It would be a much better solution than erratic use of Xesammailing list,
>> IRC
>> channel(s) and wiki.
>>
>> We lack in at least these areas:
>>
>> * No transparency of decision-making It's often unclear why something was
>> done
>> this way and not another. Maybe there was a good reason and maybe someone
>> still remembers why.
>>
>> * Usually discussions on the ML and IRC touch lots of different topics,
>> making
>> it hard to follow the issue you you are interested in.
>>
>> * No way to track current issues and their priorities, especially for
>> people
>> who are unable to keep tabs on everything that's going on within the
>> project.
>>
>> * Long-standing issues may end up forgotten and resurface at a later date,
>> sometimes too late. Same can happen to feedback and comments for these
>> issues.
>>
>> So I'm wondering just how hard it is to add something like this to
>> xesam.org?
>>
>
> I whole heartedly agree. You should file a bug in our bugzilla about this
> :-) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ in the "xesam" product.
>
> We actually has had this  set up for quite some time, but it has
> regrettably not been used. I here by pledge to start using it more :-) I
> hope you guys will do that too.
>
> If you follow the "Projecct Structure" link on the front page of the wiki
> then you will actually find this mentioned, but it might be better in a more
> discoverable place.
>

Or... If people prefer some other issue tracking system then we could set
something up at xesam.org. Or I can url rewrite bugs.xesam.org to the FDO
tracker.

-- 
Cheers,
Mikkel
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