The darn bug tracking system.

[Josh]

Rob,

Probably not very helpful to your broader questions but I see a lot of 
projects using Trac these days... http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ for example...

I've used it to submit and update bugs to the rails project and helped solve 
problems... I've tried to sign up for the Uclibc bug tracking system and 
every link I clicked in the "confirm" e-mail always resulted in some weird 
error...

Posting to the lists has yielded 0 help... so I'm not a big fan of the 
existing system either... and I'm certainly not submitting or fixing bugs 
since I can't even seem to activate my account.

Thanks,
Josh

On 8/30/05, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> 
> It's been brought to my attention that my complete and utter disregard of 
> the
> bug tracking system probably isn't a good thing. So I went and looked at 
> it
> again: tons of issues never brought up on the list, of course, but the
> reasons I don't like it are still there.
> 
> When I go to bugs.busybox.net <http://bugs.busybox.net> it shows me uclibc 
> and buildroot issues.
> Despite each instance of the word "BusyBox" being a link (under the 
> category
> column), and the URL there implying that it might at least sort (if not
> exclude anything that isn't BusyBox from the darn list like it's supposed
> to), clicking on this accomplishes nothing. (Well, it reloads the page.)
> 
> Up at the top of the page there is a "category" link, but this is things 
> like
> "Documentation", "Math Library", or "Posix Threads". Not "don't show me
> anything but busybox bugs when I go to bugs.busybox.net<http://bugs.busybox.net>
> .
> 
> I have no idea what the color coding is supposed to mean, nor why bug 349 
> is
> still "new" when we're up to 407. I don't know why "resolved" bugs still
> show up in the list by default. Bug 376 is an example where the background
> color (either Fuscia, Magenta, or some kind of neon pink) is close enough 
> to
> the foreground color in the "category" field to be completely 
> unreadable...
> 
> The login link is insecure, and attempting to replace the "http" in the 
> url
> with "https://" does not give a happy result. I'm assuming that if I 
> logged
> in there might be some way to email bug submitters, but this is a wild 
> guess
> on my part.
> 
> I figured out how to get it to show me more than 50 results at a time (if 
> the
> list is too long that means we need to close bugs, not that we need to 
> view
> small chunks of it). And I found the "projects" pulldown in the upper 
> right
> corner, but when I use that to select "busybox" it gives me a COMPLETELY
> DIFFERENT DISPLAY, one which only shows 10 bugs at a time and has no 
> obvious
> way to show more, or to not do the 2 column thing...
> 
> How do _other_ people use this thing?
> 
> Rob
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