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Re: [pygame] PyGame Website Rewrite



On, Sun Apr 26, 2009, Rene Dudfield wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi René,
> >
> > I don't know about Trac's tracking system but I find bugzilla difficult as
> > it requires report generation. How to get a listing of recent bugs is not
> > obvious.
> >

Seconded - bugzilla is a pain due to various reasons, be it its high
complexity, the need to register and the really weird 'do not simply
file a bug' avoidance.

The main reason to use trac would be to have a lot of features in one
well-maintained and solid system. The wiki, milestone management and
such stuff (suitable for gsoc tasks and subprojects) and even a good bug
tracker are something to favour over an own hackish solution in my
opinion.

We won't need to implement a wiki ourselves as trac comes with it. A bug
tracker for those who do not like mailing lists would be given, - one
that does not require a master degree in report generation and bug
filing management to use it (*).

[...]
 
> I do note however that it has been maintained quite well by James Paige...
> in that the website hasn't had much downtime, and it isn't full of spam
> which seems to happen to some trac instances.

I only noticed that for projects, which are mostly stalled or where the
whole website seems to be completely unmaintained or dead.

If spam from anonymous users should go out of hands, we can change trac
to accept only registered users for bug reports (which'd be a pity,
though).
 
> However, as I mentioned before I'm not really interested in bug trackers...
> preferring to search for bugs... so I'll leave that choice up to the rest of

I'm preferring the mailing list, but some people do not want to
subscribe there or whatever and for those a small bug tracker is the
perfect solution.

(*) Many people, including me are pretty annoyed by bugzilla and a lot
do not even report bugs (including me) to projects like mozilla anymore,
as they do not want to register yet another account just for a short
bug, for which they even have to spend half a day on filling out all
boxes.

Regards
Marcus

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