Saturday, March 31, 2018

Re: bug tracking system for OpenBSD

On 21:04 Sat 31 Mar, Consus wrote:
> On 23:01 Fri 30 Mar, Sergey Bronnikov wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The first obvious problem: you've imported every message in the mailing
> list as a separate ticket:
>
> c541065d62 ... kernel/515: Byte-order confusion in CD-ROM drivers
> 4136fcdc4e ... Re: kernel/515
>
> or
>
> 3989e0a08b ... documentation/532: man page 'curs_terminfo' does not exist
> 0486b260d2 ... Re: documentation/532
>
> So the main advantage of the bug tracking system (ability to follow the
> history of actions) is lost.
>
> Or I got something wrong, the UI is kinda strange.

Oh, I got it. User comments are being added properly only if replies to

subsytem/id: subject

are in form

RE: subsystem/id: subject

which is not always the case as

RE: subsystem/id

is also frequent.

Also ALL tickets are opened.

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