Towards Improving Bug Reporting and Harvesting

Julian Fitzell julian at beta4.com
Thu Feb 12 22:06:39 UTC 2004


Marcus,

I posted basically the same comment on SqP - email is fine as a 
mechanism of exchanging information, but it doesn't need to be the layer 
upon which everything else is built.  Much better to lay email on top of 
another layer in my opinion.

Julian

Marcus Denker wrote:
> 
> Am 12.02.2004 um 18:20 schrieb Ken Causey:
> 
>> Please take a few minutes to read my suggestions at
>>
>> http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/28.html
>>
>>
> First: I really appreciate the work you and Brent are doing,
> so, uhm, after having said that:
> 
> Question: Isn't the whole thing stating to get a bit strange
> from a design standpoint? For me, BFAV is a database
> of Bug or Fix reports, and I am changing the data of that
> database, e.g. I flip a "reviewed" bit from 0 to 1. And I do
> this by sending a mail? Hmm... does this scale for more
> complex operations?



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