Comments:Bug Reports

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Why not a 'real' bug tracker?

I know a wiki can be use for many things, but Sometimes the specialized tool is simply better. Why not use the bug tracker provided by sourceforge. It works well, gives some structure (which I think is useful for bugs), notifies by email everyone, allow advanced queries, etc.

Note that JSPWiki is moving from wiki bugreports to bugzilla. And I think this moves is less painful when done with a limited unmber of bugs ;-)

I agree that a bug tracker offers a lot of benefits, but there are also advantages to having everything in one place -- Ryan 23-Jul-2007 14:25 PDT

You're right on the advantage of having everything in one place, but usually people understand quite well that bugs are at a different place than user documentation, or technical design discussions. -- Régis Décamps

those reporting bugs are likely to come to jamwiki.org first, they won't have to register for jamwiki.org AND a bug trackign system,

All developers are already registred within sourceforge, and other users can open tickets anonymously in sourceforge. -- Régis Décamps

and a single check of Special:RecentChanges shows all project updates. -- Ryan 23-Jul-2007 14:25 PDT

We can imagine defining a new Bug namespace that points to sourceforge bug tracker, and Bug:123 being added to the RecentChanges page when sourceforge sends a mail notification -- Régis Décamps

That said, while I'd lean towards keeping bug reports on the wiki I'm not strongly opposed to using a bug tracker, so if others would prefer bug reports moved please say so and we can consider making the change. -- Ryan 23-Jul-2007 14:25 PDT

I don't want to make you change anything if you don't prefer it yourself. But I forgot to point that bugtrackers set unique id to issues; which allows to commit code with comments similar to "fix bug 123 Adding new user account NPE when "mail.from" is not set". In conclusion, I believe there is a need to formalize bugs, this can either be build in the wiki like jspwiki did or with the integration of a bug tracker to the wiki (in particular for Special:RecentChanges and Special:Search. All that being said, il n'y a pas le feu au lac (literally, there is no fire to the Geneva Lake, i.e. there is no panic) -- Régis Décamps 24-Jul-2007 03:07 PDT