On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:00:16AM +0300, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> Just to clarify - the idea is for the BFAV to have options to "submit"
> and "submit publically", so that whoever is doing the sending can decide
> he thinks the list cares.
> 
> Technically, the options would resolve to 2 addresses, and both would
> reach the archive.
> 
> I like this option because it leaves the discussion centralized (which I
> think has a lot of good effects), but will solve the "noise" part of the
> BFAV traffic.
> 
Yes, that's what I had in mind. The nice thing is: It's trivial to
implement (one new List, and we subscribe SQFixes to that).

Of course, in the long run, it would be nice to have a system
that is build on top of a real database... What I like to have
would be a system for tracking Bugs, Fixes and enhancements.
The system should provide a Web-interface for submitting bugs,
in addition to tracking the list like SQFIXES. I would provide
a client inside Squeak, a simple one for submitting bug-reports,
and one very much like BFAV for doing harvesting. (BFAV is great!)

The system would have a "INBOX" where everything is shown that
has been submitted and not yet been taken care of. the Harvesters
would at first sort the submissions, putting them in differnt sub
archives for different packages.
There are sub-archives for every package out there, those will be managed 
by the maintainer of the package. All Archives allow arbitrary sub-categories, 
for getting some structure into the many submissions.... The system would
allow the havester to post an approved changeset as an update with a single
click...

We only need to get someone to implement this ;-)

     Marcus


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