[GRASS5] Dealing with old bug reports: new GRASS 6 bugtracker?

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:35:30PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:00:22PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
...
> > Because a bugtracker should look sort of "inviting" to people to
> > help. If I see 450 bugs in a long page, I get tired immediately and
> > go elsewhere :-)
> 
> I tend to disagree that the long list is a major factor,
> the feel of the development community is. 

Example:

If I touch/fix 30 bugs out of 450, I change ~ 7%. Means, I
don't see any visual impact.

If I touch/fix 30 bugs out of 150 (and the GRASS 6 are less),
I change 20%. This satisfies me much more psychologically.

I am talking about psychologically effects here which are
IMHO very important.

> Usually you start fixing one or a few bugs that affects you
> not looking at the others. And KDE and Debian prove the impact
> wrong, they have a huge number of bugs in the tracker and attract
> a lot of people.

I don't think that we can compare KDE/GRASS or Debian/GRASS.

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Markus