pcplantdb

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

John Schinnerer wrote:

> Aloha,
>
>
> > You need to go into one of the project. Try
> >         https://sourceforge.net/projects/jep/
> > another project I'm involved with. You should I hope see
> > a tracker, a bugs database, a cvs repository and some other
> > useful bits.
>
>
> OK - didn't realize you were talking about sourceforge...
> Took a look at the project above to see what the tracker is like.
> I think it might be OK if it were only "we few, we lucky few..." putting stuff
> into it.
It might well do us for now. I suspect the core dev
team will be small.

> However - I assume we'll be soliciting bug reports, feature requests and so on
> from our development community and our user base, which will get bigger and
> bigger as we go and will have wildly varying degrees of computer literacy (and
> of just plain literacy).
In the above project, the vast majority of our bug reports
come from the user forum. Only a very small number of
bugs are submitted using bug database.

For the pfaf db, I've had a very small number of
bugs/feature requests over the years, perhaps one a month
and most of those are requests for pictures.

> So I would definitely want to use something that enforces considerably more
> structure, especially on the input end of things.
>
> I have taken a few quick looks at Bugzilla (bugzilla.org).
> It appears to use and as much as possible enforce most 'best practices' for
> issue tracking tools, based on my thus far cursory examination.
> It appears highly configurable to suit our needs and can have multiple
> 'products' within one installation, which would be nice for separating back
> end tracking from various front end projects (eventually :-) and so on.
> There are a lot of major open source projects and others using it, including
> mozilla, linux kernel, kde, gnome, apache, open office, several major linux
> distros, IBM, Ximian, NASA, and others.
> It is built with Perl and MySQL so hosting most anywhere (linux of course)
> should not be a problem.
>
> So far so good...there are some other options I will look at.
>
> Again, any recommendations for *open source* issue trackers, please send 'em
> my way.  Only if they're good, though!  I have already experienced (and been
> forced to use) far more than enough junk issue trackers and bug databases for
> this lifetime... :-p

I'd be interested to know problems you've had with these.
I've not much experience with these (apart from looking
at the Mozilla bug db, getting scared and running away fast).

I think the sourceforge would suit our current needs well.

I'm happy to go with bugzilla, as QA guy I guess this is your
shout.

        Rich

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