Hey, Lex.  Thanks for the ideas.  I've added most of them to the BFAV feature requests page ( http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3300 ).  Please add more as you think of them!

The BFAV has been kept deliberately simple -- partly because I'm not that bright :) -- but also because I think there's real value in keeping things as simple as possible, to help people to get involved in the harvesting process.    

[ provide version information in bug reports ]

I agree completely.  This is something I've been thinking about for awhile.  
I'd like to work with the package-versioning scheme provided with SM 1.1 ...  <cough>hint<cough>

[ bug "channels" (as someone called them) that aren't tied to packages ]

Explain more, please -- this sounds interesting, but I'm not sure what you mean.

[ be able to tag the severity of bugs ]

Right now I think that severity/priority is being hashed out informally with relative ease.  I think making this explicit via the UI could be useful.  However I'm leery of enabling a scenario where a bug report has (for example) Priority *and* Severity *and* Fix Group fields, and we spend hours arguing about how to determine real priority.. Sorry -- flash-back from work...

[ more complete sequence of status tags ]

I agree that we have a decent shot at this already.  I think that the UI should be more clear in showing the sequence of opened->reviewed->approved->update

In general, I'd like the UI to be alot clearer, smoother, and more intuitive -- I'd like us to get it to the point where someone can look at it, play with it a little, and figure out our harvesting process without having to read the Web pages. :)

[ allow for merging and splitting bug reports ]

This is also being handled informally -- but it takes too much manual work; I'd like to automate it to be smooth.


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