From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 9 10:56:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC1C37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:56:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A1D43FB1 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:56:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from user-0cev12u.cable.mindspring.com ([24.239.132.94] helo=bluerondo.a.la.turk) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18hwcl-0000k0-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 10:56:19 -0800 Received: (qmail 20002 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Feb 2003 18:56:18 -0000 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:56:18 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Colin Percival Cc: Mark Murray , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Bugzilla? (was Re: Okay, I think I need some serious introduction ;-) Message-ID: <20030209185618.GA19962@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20030209183111.03475ea8@popserver.sfu.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Colin Percival wrote: > Continuing on with this process, what's the next step? Specifically, > after finding a bug, fixing it, submitting a PR with included patches to > -CURRENT and -STABLE, and watching it sit in GNATS for 8 weeks, is there > anything to do other than keep on waiting? GNATS does seem to be in a logjam, and will clearly get worse as the userbase increases. Have the FreeBSD project thought about bugzilla? Both GNOME and KDE have switched to it recently, finding their old bug system (debbugs, I think) didn't scale. In fact it seems to have very useful features, like handling of duplicates, dependency tracking of bugs, etc, which would (I presume) reduce the logjam quite a bit. The couple of times I submitted Mozilla bugs, I was impressed by the rapid response (in one case it was a duplicate, and flagged as that within minutes of my sending it). R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message