Is bugzilla worth keeping?

Mike Hearn mike at navi.cx
Thu Jul 29 07:56:45 CDT 2004


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:45:18 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> It would deprive us of long-term memory.  For instance, I filed the bug
> report http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404 in January 2003
> with a nice test case (but one that's hard to translate into a unit
> test).  Without Bugzilla, we'd have a harder time remembering problems
> like that.  (Unless cxtest really takes off, I suppose...)

Well, Wine has lots of problems (relative to the task at hand) - is it
*worth* keeping track of problems for this long? If it's been >12 months
and nobody fixed it, it probably won't get fixed until somebody with
sufficient debugging skills rediscovers it in their own app.




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