Re: Project transparency through open tools.
Luke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.xfree86.forum |
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| Organization | OceanLake Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Thank you for pointing that out. I had seen it but on noticing only 7 open bugs assigned to "[email protected]" I assumed that it was a test installation. Luke Alan Hourihane wrote: >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. > >