Is bugzilla worth keeping?

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Sat Jul 24 17:04:45 CDT 2004


On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:14:04PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> One thing I notice about most other open source projects is that they
> have many more flamewars than we do. So, I thought I'd start one:
> 
> It strikes me, looking at the wine-bugs list, that there is a huge
> disparity between the number of people maintaining it and the number
> of people filing bugs in it. It seems to be quite rare for
> communication on bugfixes to take place there, wine-devel is the more
> usual forum.
> 
> So are we misleading users by having a bugzilla into thinking that if
> they file a bug there, it'll be fixed when it probably won't?
> 
> If so, does it matter?
> 
> If we were to simply drop bugzilla, how would it impact the project?

I think it is worth keeping.

Even if there is much cruft, at one time it will get more acceptance.

I took a look in the last hours and there are again some low hanging fruit
to clean out.

It will get better over time. Hopefully ;)

Ciao, Marcus



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