On Friday 30 September 2005 04:38 pm, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
So such a system would be worthwhile only if other people would volunteer to maintain the database (i.e., enter the existing bugs, take new reports and bugfix notes from the list, and check entries after new releases).
Yes, this is true. It is also only useful if people know to consult the database and enter new bugs via the database.
BTW, (I don't know gnats so well), does it have text export facilities? Just in case the database is later dropped again, so we're not stuck with the data locked in.
gnats is just a flat text file database. No RDB engine. Each report is sent via e-mail and each e-mail message is stored in a separate file. Other e-mail about the bug is appended to the file. There is a simple db to speed access, but it doesn't store the primary data and I believe it is also text based.
BTW, if setting up gnats is not much harder than installing a Debian package, we can probably also do it on our server. The technical facilities (bandwidth etc.) are available. I'm really more concerned about contibutors ...
gnats is not not much harder than installing a package ... you do need to add information of classes of bugs, .... To get Web support requires more. gnats comes with several "packages" to do web interfaces. Some come with full enter/edit/search/close via the web. Some just allow enter/search. I have a set of perl scripts to give full web access by calling the command line utilites.
Not a big deal if I don't do this ... I'm not pleading ... but if it were decided that it could be of use to people using and devloping GNU-Pascal I'd be willing to maintain the database and make sure people who needed to edit and close PR could do it. I'd rather not set it up and then have it sit with 1 or 2 bugs in it for serveral years like last time.
--Phil