Timo Sirainen wrote:
- Probably most importantly: If people start reporing bugs in there, I'm pretty much the only person who will ever read them and reply to them. Currently when people report bugs in here, it's quite useful to have other people read them too. They may already know the bug and say they've reported it, they may have an idea what's causing it, they may know a workaround, etc. All in all, moving things to BTS would most likely cause my life to be harder and it might be more difficult to get some bugs fixed.
And here is, really, the big motivation that makes a lot of sense. I've seen other BTS integrate with email (some even fairly successfully, I'm told), but starting from the PoV that it's a mailing list and extending it... great idea.
And looking at some of the other replies, I suspect they missed this point. Keeping it on the list means people don't _need_ a special client to be involved.
So, any volunteers to implement the web part, if I implement the ANNOTATE extension? :) It would actually even be possible to implement multiple frontends. All I need to do is give you access (read-only, or read-write for some) to the bug tracking mailbox, and you can use whatever frontend you wish, even a non-web one!
Count me in! This could be the excuse^H^H^H^H^H^H project I've been looking for to get some time in with PyGlade.
Of course, someone handy with writing Thunderbird extensions could certainly make themselves popular here...
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net