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From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To: Paul Pathiakis <paul@pathiakis.com>
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Subject: Re: Request Tracker
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:43:24PM -0400, Paul Pathiakis wrote:
> 	will it be possible for ports to support a bug tracking
> system?  I have a lot of my linux friends that are starting
> to move more and more of their commercial bug tracking systems
> to Request Tracker:
> 
> http://www.bestpractical.com/rt
> 
> All of them are swearing by it and I'm hoping ports will adopt it....main 
> reason is that I'm trying to open a company in the next 6 months and plan to 
> use it...on FreeBSD of course.

That'll only happen if there is a way to migrate the GNATS
database to RT.  If that's possible for a given bug tracking
system, then FreeBSD will most likely consider it seriously.
Otherwise, it's too much trouble to bother.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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