Dean Michael Berris wrote:
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:
Dean Michael Berris wrote:
1. The signal/noise ratio can be hard to keep down especially if you have a lot of ground to cover. Consider how you (or any other maintainer for example) would want to manage a part of the 1000 tickets that are all in the same pile. Sure you can query it many different ways, but wouldn't it be way easier to just look at 100 issues just for Boost.Regex than it is to spend some time looking at 1000 issues that might be relevant to Boost.Regex?
Michael,
you seem to be making very strange points here. I have a saved query in Trac for all the components that I maintain, which is bookmarked in my browser, and once a week, I click "Alt-F2", type "Boost Trac", and examine those tickets without seeing anything I don't care about. Is there a reason you think this approach won't work for everybody? Like, is there a web browser that lacks bookmarks functionality?
Sure, but the whole point that you have a central place to query the information is what's broken -- especially if you have to resort to these "hacks" just to filter out what's important for you.
Imagine if you had one issue tracker per Boost library. Then you don't have to worry about crafting the queries to get the relevant information in the first place. And then it's going to be easier to develop milestones per library than creating one big milestone and having one giant release. You can then have different workflows per Boost library depending on what the developers of the library are comfortable with.
I'd be very much against the idea of checking 4 different sites as opposed to 1 -- at least, until I have 4 pairs of hand to work on 4 different projects at the same time. In fact, I so much dislike having to check N different issue trackers that I have a student working on a tool to present issues from different trackers in a single UI. However, until that project is done, I'd much rather not having things split up unnecessary. Even Linux has a single bug tracker, you know. - Volodya