Re: bugtracker switch

[Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@xxxxxx>]

Alex Hornung schrieb:
> : Well, I'm under the impression our bug tracker problems are not so much
> : because of roundup's technical limitations but rather because we don't
> : take much care to close bugs we fix and to do proper triaging so that
> : we
> : can focus on bugs that we know are still reproducible.
>
> I do agree; I'm not implying that a new bugtracker will magically solve our issues, but rather help us in getting there with some re-education / policing.
>
> : b) bugs get automatically closed if the originator fails to respond
> : and/or verify that the bug is still there after, say, 6 months
>
> This policy alone would allow us to get rid of probably over 1/3 of the issues straight away. There are plenty where the original bug reporter is not around anymore or just doesn't bother testing anything. There is no point in having some stone-age issues around that are probably already fixed just because nobody can confirm that recent versions still suffer that problem.
> This is already common practice in about every other open source project that I know of.
>   
I am with you guys on either topic, new bugtracker and new policy.

Jan

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