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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

The advantage I see to bugzilla is that it makes it very easy for people
to track the status of spells they submit, complete with an autogenerated
e-mail when it is closed. Once all the spells make it in as bugs, they
could be re-opened to handle version bumps. While I don't think this is
the best solution, it certainly will work better than the mailing list and
require less work than maintaining a separate list in the wiki.

I submitted a spell back on July 22 which finally was added today (thanks
Ryan and Eric). I used bugzilla originally, then submitted it twice to
spell-submit, but no one got to it until Ryan brought up that there are
new spells slipping through the cracks. Had I not filed a bug for the
spell, I'm convinced it would have been lost until I submitted to the list
yet again.

I think the ideal solution would be to create our own simple mysql+php
based spell management system, but until that's done I think the bugzilla
route gives us more feedback as to what is being done.

Just my 1.5 cents...

-casey

On 7 Sep 2002, Tom Garland wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 09:34, Ryan Abrams wrote:
> > There is no need for a second bugzilla. We just need people to use the 
> > first.
> I agree, I mis-read Bernardo's 'grimoire team bugzilla' and missed the
> bugzilla word. (see below), I also didn't follow up on his next
> statements either :( That road of using bugzilla was not my intention.
> 
> I think the spell-submit is a good and consistant place for new spells.
> Also I am willing in the short term to manage a a wiki list for it with
> the goal in the furture to incorporate any submitted spells as a part of
> the grimoire/codex. This way we have documentation for all submitted
> spells that have not made it to the devel grimoire/codex yet.
> 
> > 
> > We could add a category for submitted spells if we chose. Or we could 
> > find another way to handle them.
> > 
> > There needs to be something. We can discuss it at the meeting
> > 
> > -Ryan
> > 
> > On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 11:20  AM, Tom Garland wrote:
> > 
> > > Conversation between toga and Bernardo on Sept. 7, 2002.
> > >
> slash cut
> > > <Bernardo> ok... Then why not bugzilla? it is there, working.
> > > <toga> Could still use it too. I'm willing to check it everyday also.
> > > <Bernardo> I still think that a grimoire team bugzilla could be the 
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^     
> > > best
> > > starting point as the "spell depot". A user/spell writer could check 
> > > and see
> > > what is happening with the spell he sent
> > > <toga> Bernardo: That's the goal, but can't do it in a day ;)
> > > <Bernardo> toga: I don't know, having never set up  bugzilla myself. 
> > > But
> > > what would cost us to have a second bugzilla running from a
> > > www.sourcemage.org link? How much time, and who could set it up?
> > >
> > >
> > > The Bernardo and toga team ;)
> > >
> 
> Have Fun! - toga
> 
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