Okay, I cleaned up the "Reporting bugs and fixes" page a bit, and also added a new Mantis page on the swiki at:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3860
Hopefully this will clear up some of the confusion.
- Doug
On Oct 3, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Doug Way wrote:
Yes, I think we've pretty much decided that for 3.8, we will do bug tracking in Mantis, and still post [FIX]es and [ENH]ancements to the list and harvest them via BFAV.
I see that the "Reporting bug and fixes" page on the swiki has been updated to tell people to report bugs to mantis, although the exact process (and long term plans) could probably be further clarified. http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/398
I think we know that having different systems for bugs vs fixes is not a permanent solution, but we can probably live with it for now while we figure out how the tools work. I had posted some random thoughts here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-September/ 082175.html
Also, the "Harvesting Process" page needs updating by myself or Marcus or someone to mention the new "unstable" update stream.
- Doug
p.s. I see on the banner of the swiki that Squeak 3.7 is now known as "The basecamp release"... :)
On Oct 2, 2004, at 2:50 AM, danielv@tx.technion.ac.il wrote:
Yes, yes, Stef was far too ambivalent. We need to *decide* what system is used for what.
So if anyone thinks the policy should be different from the below, argue for it.
AFAIK, nobody has currently said that he is harvesting bug *fixes* from mantis, which implies that bugfixes and enh are posted to and handled by the BFAV, since that's what the harvesters currently use.
We don't really do bug tracking on the BFAV, and Mantis might be actually useful for that, so post *bugs* to Mantis.
If you wrote a fix in response to a bug report found on Mantis, *please* add a link (or the fixes subject) to Mantis. This will allow people looking at the bug during beta to know there's a pending fix, and getting it in. If some kind soul knows how to teach the BFAV to make that easier to do, that'd be cool.
If you own a bug (currently on BFAV (anything reported to the list)), and want it to be looked at during beta phase, make sure its on Mantis. If you want to see whether any open reported bugs interest you, for the same purpose, install BFAV, it shows that.
Daniel
"David T. Lewis" lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:50:42AM +0200, stZphane ducasse wrote:
Post if to mantis (but I'm not sure). It seems that fewer people will look at it but may be not.
Please let's continue using BFAV for this. Mantis is great for tracking bugs (we need this badly) but it is not part of the Squeak environment.
It would be great if BFAV can continue to be improved so that reviewing bugs can become a *fun* thing to do.
I don't know how to keep Mantis in sync with BFAV. That's the problem with using separate "databases". But I'm sure someone will think of something ;-)
Dave