Re: Project transparency through open tools.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:33:11PM +0900, Luke wrote:
> Like the subject says, wouldn't the entire project be able to make 
> itself much more transparent to the rest of the community by using open 
> tools?  A good example of an open tool is Bugzilla - not only would 
> users be able to watch and interact with the bugs affecting them, but it 
> would also be of great benefit to the XFree86 developers.
> 
> Most open source projects of this magnitude (KDE and the Debian 
> GNU/Linux distribution to name two) use an open bug tracking system.  Is 
> there some unspoken reason for not doing this?
 
Looks like you've not seen http://bugs.xfree86.org then.

> Also, roadmaps and such could be easily published as well.  Mozilla 
> makes information readily available 
> (http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html) to anyone who wants it.

On this list, there has been an initial XFree86 5.0 TODO list too.

Alan.