[MPlayer-dev-eng] bug database

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 11:46, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> why just a plain text file? 
why not?

> It won't be used.
maybe

> It's not public  
> (enough).
cronjob which converts it to some nice html ...

> It's error prone. 
write a tiny script to check it for validity

> It makes following the bug's life  
> harder.
cvslog

> Why not use a full-featured bug system? It doesn't have to be 
> Bugzilla, there are others that work quite well and are smaller
> (e.g. Anthill).
iam happy with most systems, and i agree that the "current" mailing list based 
one is a bad idea, but the crap SF uses for example is far worse IMHO

so IMHO, a bugtracking system should at minimum support:
* sending email notifications of new bugs & changes
* a fast pure textmode interface, no shitty html only system
* internaly data must be stored in a simple format so we could change to a 
different system by just converting the data with a short script
* has at least following states: unconfirmed, confirmed, analyzed, fixed, 
wont-fix, invalid, not-reproduceable, fixed-untested
* some priority field

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-- 
Michael
level[i]= get_vlc(); i+=get_vlc();		(violates patent EP0266049)
median(mv[y-1][x], mv[y][x-1], mv[y+1][x+1]);	(violates patent #5,905,535)
buf[i]= qp - buf[i-1];				(violates patent #?)
for more examples, see http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/patent.html
stop it, see http://petition.eurolinux.org & http://petition.ffii.org/eubsa/en