[fpc-devel] About bug 4356 and fpc bugtracker

[Marc Weustink]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> 
> 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. 

IMO anonymous submitting reports is OK, modifying and maitaining not. 
When switching to mantis I didn't look how to enable anonymous reports, 
but I think it is possible (in our old tracker you had to logon also)

> I think most of these systems are leaning towards bloatware. 

if you speak of bugzilla, it think it is.

> 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...

The old lazarus bugtracker was also one table. But it didn't satisfy.
I think the number of tables doesn't matter, it is the functionality 
provided for me as devel what matters. Not being able to view bug tagged 
for a certain release or assinged to me was a real pain in the old system.
Again, adding those features would take time, which wasn't available. If 
we did it ourselves, we still had the old one. (imo the rate of solved 
bugs increased since we switched to it)
When looking at mantis, there were more useful features than unusefull.

Marc