Surely, "it depends"

Surely, "it depends"

Posted Jul 17, 2003 12:50 UTC (Thu) by mwh (subscriber, #582)
Parent article: Bug trackers and kernel development

Each project has its own developer base, its own potential bug reporting community, its own methodology. It's the question of finding a way of managing bugs that works that's important, not finding the One True Way.

I would guess in the kernel case that both the reporters and the fixers are going to be fairly small, clueful groups and this suits the mailing list approach.

Python has a fairly large body of developers and it's definitely helpful to have a more structured approach.

Gnome and Mozilla have a (comparatively) vast and clueless community of potential bug submitters, need some way of dealing with the fact that a large fraction of bug reports are useless -- and have developed tools to do so.

To say that everyone should use a "post to mailing list and retry" approach is dumb (and not what I thought David was saying).

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