Re: Submitting Bug Reports
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Mar 13, 2009
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Bernie, that's a good idea, however, it's a lot of work to make an effective bug tracker and we already have one on SF.net. Maybe once 4.0 is out and everyone has had a break, we *may* venture in that area as it is nice to have a combined login and to be able to show off tools written with Euphoria, but as of now, we just don't have the time or resources.
Jeremy
I think that most users are using this forum because it is
too much trouble to go to SF.net from this forum which they
are already using and login to that bug tracker with another
login.
The forum is a great place for discussion, but very poor for tracking purposes. There are several advantages to using SF.net for this. The bug tracker itself is most important, since it emails anyone who signs up about new bugs that have been entered, or anytime they are updated. It allows us to prioritize and assign (Jeremy mentioned these features). And we don't have a reasonable alternative that could be integrated into the forum.
Another benefit is that bug tracking activity raises the overall activity profile of the project on sourceforge, which raises euphoria's profile on sf.net. It's not a world beating issue, but it does raise the profile of euphoria in general.
Also, unless you or someone else volunteers, there's not the manpower to develop an alternative right now. We've got no shortage of work to do.
Matt
