Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> Needs
> easy reporting of bugs - sent to bugs list
> easy lookup of previous bugs
> summary of fix or workaround
> detail of fix or work around
> little to no intervention of
> developers
> ability of developer to add
> comments
> That should sum it up.
Check.
> We've had a couple of volunteers to keep the database up to date.
> Is it enough? I dunno, if I were to guess I'd have to look at
> previous experience and say probably not.
AFAIR, we had *zero* people paying any attention to the state of the
bug database up to now. A couple of people ought to make a big
difference.
> Is implementing yet another bugtool going to be the solution?
> Probably not. Do I want to go for number six? No.
If you're the man maintaining it then I'm certainly not going to tell
you how to do your job. OTOH --- it does seem like a lot of people
like Bugzilla. Might be worth at least a cursory look.
> Here's what I propose.
> The current tool has a form - we keep it.
> The current tool mails to the bugs list - we keep it.
Those are both fine. How do we get feedback in the other direction,
ie mailing lists to bug database? That's the $64 question in my mind
at the moment.
regards, tom lane