From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 27 23:31:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195701065673 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:31:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-out2.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-OUT2.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37518FC0A for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,278,1246831200"; d="scan'208";a="219840378" Received: from zivmaildisp2.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER03.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.143]) by zivm-relay2.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 28 Jul 2009 01:31:36 +0200 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER03.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id E4D231B0751; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:31:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: replacing GNATS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:31:39 -0000 i remember reading an interview with a fbsd maintainer where he stated that nobody's happy with the old GNATS bug tracking system, but since it works they're keeping it. why not move to bugzilla or another bug tracking system? most of them come with GNATS_2_* scripts. switching from cvs to svn (except ports) worked pretty well so why not continue in that fashion? cheers. alex