From: Aaron Montgomery (agm@PURDUENC.EDU)
Date: 13 Oct 98, 12:51 EST
From: Aaron Montgomery <agm@PURDUENC.EDU> Subject: Re: Web Bug List and Organization >Here's an idea: > >What if there were a ``bug list'' which was made available on the Web. Let me start by saying... -- DO NOT START SENDING ME BUG REPORTS -- NO ONE HAS AGREED THAT THIS PLAN IS A GOOD IDEA -- HOWEVER, YOUR FEEDBACK ON ITS WORTH IS WELCOMED (yes, I am shouting, I already get a ton of e-mail and until I get everything set up to run automatically, it is likely that I will just trash your bug report) I own TestTrack which is defect tracking software. I have found a way to export its database files to HTML without too much difficulty (thanks to Alpha in fact). If everyone uses a little app called SoloBug to write their bug reports, importing bugs isn't too bad. (if we opt to do this, then I will make SoloBug available to all on the Web). I can collect bugs/remedies and put them in the database and every so often (monthly?) export the database to a web page. I think we are going to try to do this with the C code but I've only really got one person (of the four others) who has said they like the idea so who knows what will happen. I can certainly do something similar for the Tcl code. However, I won't verify any claims that bug X exists or that person Y has really fixed bug Z like he/she claimed. For the C code (not the TCL packages) we are looking into setting something like this up. Since it looks like I will be in charge of maintaining the list (I volunteered so only I am to blame for that problem), here's the plan. If people feel that this would be useful, I will try to set things up to start by Halloween and send an e-mail to the list telling you where everything is sitting. Aaron <finger:agm@purduenc.edu> <mailto:agm@purduenc.edu> <http://faculty.purduenc.edu/agm/>