Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:11:37 -0500 (CDT) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Problem Report Project status |
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I've been doing this project for a few weeks now and I think it's time to evaluate where I want to take it. You all have had a chance to see what I've done and to judge whether it is useful or not. I've been doing it as a startup demonstration to see if it was useful and whether I could do it. I'm fairly certain I can do it -- whether it is worth it is up to you all.
When I announced the project it was in response to informal exchanges with some of the major developers. I had initially considered a bugzilla-type of project, but there were some drawbacks. Bugzilla appears to have the capabilities I'm looking for, but I have/had some concerns. My aim is to provide the kind of reporting, in an expanded form and format more readily accessible. The problem is that I don't want to get in the way; I don't want the developers to have to go through extra effort, and I don't want the users reporting bugs to be required to go through extra effort to support this.
My current approach has some drawbacks. I need to be able to associate messages in different threads with the same problem. I need to be able to associate one message with several problems. I need to be able to better track the status of fixes. I know bugzilla can do all this, I just need to figure out whether I can set it up so I can do it without requiring a lot of extra work for users and developers. If I can't, then it isn't as useful as it could be.
I'm going to spend this weekend looking at bugzilla and learning it. I want to be able to create a problem tracking report and dump relevant messages from my kernel mailing queues into the database associated with that report. I want to be able to associate a developer with each problem report group and track the status of fixes for the problem. I want to be able to create reports for the mailing list from that database, as well as making it available online.
In the meantime, if I could get feedback on what I've been doing so far, whether what I've outlined is what you might expect, and any other suggestions you might have. I was initially offered space on sourceforge. I'm assuming that offer is still good; if the feedback I get indicates I should go in the direction I've outlined, I'll contact them and set it up there.
Thanks in advance for your attention.
Tom
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