[GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS bugs

[Maciej Sieczka]

Paolo Cavallini napisa?(a):

> Maciej Sieczka ha scritto:
>  > I agree that the BT is a bit PR tool whether we like it or not...
> 
> Glad we agree.
> 
>>>> The best bug reporting tool I'm using is Trac, used eg by qgis:
>>>> http://svn.qgis.org/trac/report/
>>>> very easy to use, powerful, and reports can be customized easily. Could
>>>> we move to this?
>>> (Bernard has recently told that a move to Gforge at
>>> http://wald.intevation.org/ is planned.)
>>>
>>> Bernhard, is there a time schedule for that yet?
>>>
>>> How would Gforge compare to Trac?
> 
> I used both, and found trac far more straightforward.
> 
>>> I personally don't like Trac's WIKI like format; it makes reporting bugs
>>> over complicated, which might scare off naive users. The WIKI formatting
>>> should be only an addition to allow formatting when needed. It should
>>> not not the requirement only to fill in a 10 word report.
> 
> ? You can enter straight text, I do not see problems here.

I at least recall there are is an issue with linebreaks in Trac. Eg, if
you do:

1. Point one.
2. Point two.

it will become;

1. Point one.2. Point two.

You have to remember to do it like:

1. Point one.

2. Point two.

to avoid that.

More gotchas I don't remember now.

>>> Let's hold off planning the bug fiest schedule until the issues here are
>>> sorted out.
> 
> Agreed.

*And* we need more C programmers. And tcltk propably too.

Maciek