[cmake-developers] [CMake] CMake bug tracker discussion

[Philip Lowman]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:06 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hello CMake users and devs,
>
> (And now for something completely different...)
>
> Controversial questions:
>
> - Should we eliminate the bug tracker entirely and just do all
> discussion and patches on the mailing list? (Why have two sources of
> information...?)
>
> - Or, alternatively, should we eliminate the bulk of mailing list
> traffic, and insist on issues in the bug tracker being the main
> conversational forum for the whole community?
>
> I'd like to have this discussion here publicly, to try to get a good
> sense of varous community members attitudes and feelings.


I like the bug tracker.  Even people that use it, however, know that hitting
up the mailing list tends to improve the chance that the bug is actually
researched and fixed.

Also, sometimes it seems wrong to take an issue raised on the mailing list
and force it into the bug tracker.  It seems a little rude to the person
that emailed about the issue because you might be asking them to deal with
the rigmarole of creating a mantis account when they already went through
the hassle of joining the mailing list and making the post.

-- 
Philip Lowman
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