BFAV to shutdown or not shutdown

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Fri Apr 22 16:07:00 UTC 2005


Stéphane,

I would appreciate it if you could be more concrete about what you do
not like about Mantis.

Ken

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 09:36 +0200, stéphane ducasse wrote:
> Hi ken
> 
> I found myfself recently regretting the old BFAV time, because I got 
> trapped within the
> bad interface of mantis losing a lot of time there. So I stopped using 
> it because I could not.
> I did not say anything because I did not want to put the mess.
> Now I have a question: is there someone working on producing something 
> better than
> mantis/ or patching mantis because what I see is that it slows us down 
> a lot.
> 
> Stef
> 
> 
> On 21 avr. 05, at 18:27, Ken Causey wrote:
> 
> > Primarily because we janitors are human and the BFAV database serves 
> > for
> > now as a useful backup to help us keep track of what issues we have and
> > have not properly handled.  If we miss one then it is very easy to 
> > catch
> > by looking in BFAV.  Secondarily, there are still issues in BFAV that
> > should be handled in the old way.  To do that harvesters need to be 
> > able
> > to close the issue, mark them as approved, mark them as being in an
> > update etc.  All this relies on BFAV being able to receive new reports
> > by email.
> >
> > However there may come a time in the not too distant future when I can
> > shut down the monitoring of the squeak-dev list and just monitor the
> > behind the scenes squeak-harvesting list.  However I don't think we are
> > quite ready for that yet.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:52 -0300, Hernan Tylim wrote:
> >> Hi Ken,
> >>
> >> I've seen a lot of this mails, and I am not criticizing, but I always
> >> wondered.... Why don't you just shutdown the BFAV server? or at least
> >> the part of it that scan and parse the mailing list ?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Hernán
> >>
> >
> >
> 
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