Bug tracking system for GMP

Alex Petty alexander.petty at gmail.com
Fri Nov 26 14:24:14 CET 2010


my experience is that bugzilla is pretty simple to install and maintain.
-alex

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On 11/26/2010 5:49 AM, Niels Möller wrote:
> Torbjorn Granlund<tg at gmplib.org>  writes:
>
>> I am afraid I don't know what to expect from a bug tracker, and what it
>> can do.
> That makes it a bit harder to give relveant advice, of course. For a
> start, do you want something purely webbased, or do you want to be able
> to interact with it using email or commandline tools?
>
>> Apparently some of the systems suggested here can do lots of stuff I
>> don't know how to make use of.  Why do they connect to a SCM?
> I guess one may want to have some association between commits and bugs
> that are fixed (or introduced...). Or maybe close bugs in the bugtracker
> by adding some magic marker to the commit message.
>
>> The main problem I am trying to solve is to make sure non-solved issues
>> are not forgotten.
> The hard core way is of course to keep track of this as test cases in
> the repository. To report a bug, just commit a new testcase which
> demonstrates it ;-)
>
>> To me, Bugzilla seems sufficient for the needs I see.
>  From a user perspective, bugzilla seems good enough, at least as long as
> you don't need to access it over email. Anybody here who knows if its
> easy or painful to install and manage?
>
> Regards,
> /Niels
>




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