Post fixes on Mantis?

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Oct 3 08:25:18 UTC 2004


Thanks daniel.

I hope that we will find a squeak solution soon (but not before 
beginning of november at least from what I have in mind :))

Stef

On 2 oct. 04, at 08:50, danielv at techunix.technion.ac.il wrote:

> Yes, yes, Stef was far too ambivalent. We need to *decide* what system
> is used for what.
>
> So if anyone thinks the policy should be different from the below, 
> argue
> for it.
>
> AFAIK, nobody has currently said that he is harvesting bug *fixes* from
> mantis, which implies that bugfixes and enh are posted to and handled 
> by
> the BFAV, since that's what the harvesters currently use.
>
> We don't really do bug tracking on the BFAV, and Mantis might be
> actually useful for that, so post *bugs* to Mantis.
>
> If you wrote a fix in response to a bug report found on Mantis, 
> *please*
> add a link (or the fixes subject) to Mantis. This will allow people
> looking at the bug during beta to know there's a pending fix, and
> getting it in. If some kind soul knows how to teach the BFAV to make
> that easier to do, that'd be cool.
>
> If you own a bug (currently on BFAV (anything reported to the list)),
> and want it to be looked at during beta phase, make sure its on Mantis.
> If you want to see whether any open reported bugs interest you, for the
> same purpose, install BFAV, it shows that.
>
> Daniel
>
> "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:50:42AM +0200, stZphane ducasse wrote:
>>> Post if to mantis (but I'm not sure). It seems that fewer people will
>>> look at it but may be not.
>>
>> Please let's continue using BFAV for this. Mantis is great for 
>> tracking
>> bugs (we need this badly) but it is not part of the Squeak 
>> environment.
>>
>> It would be great if BFAV can continue to be improved so that 
>> reviewing
>> bugs can become a *fun* thing to do.
>>
>> I don't know how to keep Mantis in sync with BFAV. That's the problem
>> with using separate "databases". But I'm sure someone will think of
>> something ;-)
>>
>> Dave
>




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