On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:22 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, seth vidal wrote:
Mantis has a much better interface, and is much more straightforward to configure and use. Please save the database elitism for the linux-vs-freebsd and atari-vs-commodore flame lists where those discussions belong. umm are you kidding? mantis screen shot: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/mantis-screenshot.png bugzilla screen shot: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/bugzilla-screenshot.png trac screen shot: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/trac-screenshot.png mantis is a pain in the arse to navigate, by far
no seth, I am not kidding.
try _USING_ the freaking things. bugzilla is cumbersome (and this is well and widely known). it is also pretty freaking ugly.
I've used mantis unfortunately more than I'd like with centos and I find the interface confusing and cumbersome. Maybe with some interface design work it could be okay but it's excruciating as-is. Beyond that there is the pain that it is b/c it is php-based. I'm positive I'm not the only sysadmin here who cringes whenever asked for access to some other php application.
http://bugs.mantisbt.org/view.php?id=6254 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24004
the second one is much much easier to follow - less kludgy and confusing box colors to distract you from the content.
http://bugs.mantisbt.org/view_all_bug_page.php http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=gcc&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED
Same as above.
when you have a lot of bugs upen and juggling a lot of bugs simultaneously (not uncommon for a development session), mantis is a lot easier and more convenient to use than bugzilla.
It adds more whizbang things in the interface and makes it MORE confusing.
focus on lesscode and less confusion.
-sv