Friday, March 30, 2018

Re: bug tracking system for OpenBSD

On 2018 Mar 30 (Fri) at 23:01:16 +0300 (+0300), Sergey Bronnikov wrote:
:On 17:54 Tue 19 Dec , Ted Unangst wrote:
:> Kai Wetlesen wrote:
:> > > > you don't have to announce your bug database the first day you set it up. in
:> > > > fact, it's better not to. but in a few months time, when somebody inevitably
:> > > > asks misc how do i contribute, where's the todo list, you'll have this handy
:> > > > list of unresolved bugs to point them at.
:>
:> > There are many decisions that would need to be made that will piss somebody
:> > off. Decisions like what software/platform to use, where to host the thing, and
:> > how much the tool should integrate into existing bug reporting mechanisms
:> > (right now just fancy emailing).
:> >
:> > To answer your tactful question Theo, I personally haven't done anything because
:> > I do not have your blessing nor of someone who can say "yes just effing do it". But,
:> > if you would be willing to give me free reign it will be done.
:>
:> Imagine if you'd followed my suggestion and spent the last six months curating
:> a bug database. Then today you could have sent us a link to it and everybody
:> would see how useful it is. Now we have to wait another six months.
:
:I have made a first step forward in direction to OpenBSD bugtracker
:and imported bugs@ archive to a Fossil SCM -
:https://bronevichok.ru/cgi-bin/b.cgi/rptview?rn=1
:Let's discuss a next step.
:

I believe the next step would be to delete the database.
_Please re-read the entire thread_. Or even just the parts you quoted.

An example that shouldn't be displayed in the database:
- Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 7 17:50:01 MDT 1998

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