[Dovecot] Bug tracker

Antoine Nguyen ngu.antoine at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 09:49:45 EEST 2012


Le 11 avril 2012 08:26, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> a écrit :

> I started thinking that perhaps I should move my TODO list to a bug
> tracker. But because of reasons I've explained a few times before, I don't
> want a full blown public bug tracking system. The requirements for it are:
>
>  * I am the only person who can add new bugs. Everyone else reports
> bugs/requests to this mailing list as before. (Well, I guess Stephan could
> use this as well if he wants to.)
>
>  * Everyone can comment existing bugs.
>
>  * Dovecot mailing list integration: Commenting a bug sends a mail to the
> mailing list. Replies to those comments go back to bug tracker (probably
> based on some [#1234] tag in subject). I would have the option of adding a
> comment that doesn't go to the mailing list (= adding some internal comment
> that nobody else cares about). Notifications about new bugs won't go to the
> mailing list (most likely it was created due to a recent mailing list post).
>
> So the main difference to how things work now is that people would be able
> to easily browse existing bugs and add comments to them. I would add bugs
> there only when I'm not planning on fixing them within a few days. I
> wouldn't add each and every feature request there, only the things that I'm
> actually interested in developing. So the idea would be to actually get the
> bug tracker emptied at some point, not to be a graveyard of unimportant
> feature requests that about 1-2 people in the world would want.
>
> So, any suggestions for what software could do these things? I think
> Request Tracker has those features, but it's not really the
> nicest/prettiest thing.
>
>
Maybe Redmine ? (http://www.redmine.org/

It's more than just a bug tracker but I think it answers your needs.

Antoine
Modoboa developer (http://modoboa.org/)


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