but we are all poor idiots dave.
Believe me, me the first :)

But your point is valid, history is important.

On 22 avr. 05, at 12:54, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:27:12AM -0500, 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.
>
> Keeping BFAV available is a good thing. There are lots of issues and
> concerns with history documented in BFAV and not (yet) in Mantis. As
> an example, bug #989 in Mantis reports a problem that is a show-stopper
> for Tweak. The original root problem dated back at least a couple of
> years, and some poor idiot had provided an incorrect fix that 
> ultimately
> resulted in the show-stopper for Tweak. The history of this was all
> in BFAV, and the idiot in question was able to look it up in BFAV and
> provide enough background to help sort things out.
>
> The moral of the story is that we have a lot of old issues that need
> to be managed, and BFAV is still useful even if the issue management
> process has moved to Mantis.
>
> Dave
>
>