Re: [RFC] git integrated bugtracking

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Jun 10, 2007, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqwsybo44j.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20070610083754.GC4084@efreet.light.src>

Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:

> A related thing is Bazaar's "Bundle Buggy". It tracks patch submission rather
> than bugs, but it is roughly what I meant by the "mailing list integration"
> above. It "reads" the mailing list, watching for anything labeled [PATCH] or
> [BUNDLE]

Indeed, the bundle buggy is inspired from the "Bug goo" developed earlier for GNU Arch. This one was watching mails labeled with [BUG] on the mailing list.

I found the idea really good. Indeed, as a user, when I find a bug in a piece of software, I often hesitate between using the bugtracker (in which case my bug is often mostly ignored), or reporting it on the mailing list (in which case, a long discussion can follow, at the end of which everybody thinks that someone else will fix the bug, and no one actually does). With the bug goo, the bugtracker becomes the mailing list, with all the advantage of it (discussions easy to follow, threaded, ...), and a few additions, the biggest of which is status tracking, in particular, the ability to list all unsolved bugs.

Unfortunately, as most of the GNU Arch stuff, it started with good ideas, but was abandonned before it started being interesting :-\.

-- 
Matthieu