[fpc-devel] About bug 4356 and fpc bugtracker

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Marc Weustink wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Luiz Américo wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I want just comment that any directory ending with pathdelim will return
>>> false. See below:
>>> 
>>> DirectoryExists('C:\Windows'): TRUE
>>> DirectoryExists('C:\Windows\'): FALSE
>>> 
>>> BTW: The fpc bugtracker is quite minimal, not allowing things like adding
>>> comments, followups etc.
>> 
>> 
>> For most bugs, there is no need for such things.
>
> For the bugs I submitted to fpc I had 2 or 3 times afterwards the need to add 
> comments or to correct my report.
>
>>> It seems there's a plan to rewrite the bugtracker, am i correct?
>> 
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> 
>>> If no or if will take much time maybe a solution would be addopting one
>>> dedicated bugtracker system like lazarus/mantis
>> 
>> 
>> Well... It's another additional external system to maintain. I'll rewrite 
>> the bugtracker, and at that time, I'll add some features.
>
> That is why the Lazarus team switched to mantis. Rewriting the bugtracker 
> would take also time. And it has also to be maintained.
> Further rewriting wouldn't give all options we have with mantis now.
>
> Setting it up consist merely of having a MySQL db and running the mantis 
> admin script from your webbrowser.

Maybe, but none of the bug systems which I checked (bugzilla/mantis/others)
really satisfy.

I am against a system that requires you to make a login to be able to
submit/manipulate bugs. I myself am put off by that, so I assume other
people will react the same. I think most of these systems are leaning
towards bloatware. The FPC bugtracker is very simple, just a single
table. I want to add one more table for some follow-up remarks, but
that is it. KISS is the principle...

Michael.