Okay, I cleaned up the "Reporting bugs and fixes" page a bit, and also  
added a new Mantis page on the swiki at:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3860

Hopefully this will clear up some of the confusion.

- Doug


On Oct 3, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Doug Way wrote:

> Yes, I think we've pretty much decided that for 3.8, we will do bug  
> tracking in Mantis, and still post [FIX]es and [ENH]ancements to the  
> list and harvest them via BFAV.
>
> I see that the "Reporting bug and fixes" page on the swiki has been  
> updated to tell people to report bugs to mantis, although the exact  
> process (and long term plans) could probably be further clarified.   
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/398
>
> I think we know that having different systems for bugs vs fixes is not  
> a permanent solution, but we can probably live with it for now while  
> we figure out how the tools work.  I had posted some random thoughts  
> here:  
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-September/ 
> 082175.html
>
> Also, the "Harvesting Process" page needs updating by myself or Marcus  
> or someone to mention the new "unstable" update stream.
>
> - Doug
>
> p.s. I see on the banner of the swiki that Squeak 3.7 is now known as  
> "The basecamp release"... :)
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2004, at 2:50 AM, danielv at tx.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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