Re: [eigen] moving to a serious issue/patch tracker

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Note that I have disabled a lot of features of bugzilla, such as the
time tracker. You can re-enable them in the administration panel.
Also, there are lots of bugzilla extensions floating around the web,
in case you miss something.

Benoit

2010/10/2 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I've played a bit with bugzilla, and I have to say that it seems to be
> much more appropriate than redmine for our purpose. The only advantage
> of Redmine is the integration with other goodies (it is not only a
> tracker) but regarding the tracker itself I don't see it as a valuable
> improvement compared to what bitbucket already offers (in term of work
> efficiency).
>
> So +1 to all the arguments of Benoit though at first I was a bit
> skeptical about his objectivity here ;)
>
> gael
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> *** general issue tracker announcements ***
>>
>> For some time we've been considering moving to a serious issue/patch tracker.
>>
>> There are 2 main candidates here: Redmine (Thomas' favorite) and
>> Bugzilla (my favorite).
>>
>> Toy Bugzilla instance:
>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/bz/
>>
>> Toy Redmine instance:
>> http://eigen.freehackers.org
>>
>> *** bugzilla propaganda ***
>>
>> What I like with bugzilla is that it matches the workflow that I have
>> in mind for Eigen. I would like us to move to using such a tracker for
>> most development discussion, and potentially attach lots of patches to
>> them. I would like all the discussion to stay on the same bug page,
>> not be distributed over N separate bug pages. I would like the bug,
>> not the patches, to be the center of the discussion. So patch review
>> systems a la reviewboard don't work for me. They are for projects who
>> stay mainly centered around a mailing list, but this has not be
>> working for us for a long time now.
>>
>> Notice that I have set up patch reviewing as follows in this bugzilla:
>> When you attach a patch, under "flags", there is a "review" line.
>> There you can select "?" to request review, and enter the name of the
>> requestee. He then receives an email, and can on one page add a
>> comment, see your raw patch, quote it, reply r+ or r-.
>>
>> Click on 'Diff' to see the effect of a patch. There is also a great
>> 'interdiff' feature to see the difference between 2 patches, but i
>> have yet to make it work.
>>
>> Benoit
>>
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