Phil Nelson wrote:
On Friday 30 September 2005 01:26 pm, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
BTW, the bug list is a texi file of the GPC manual (todo.texi). You're welcome to add diffs to this file when you send me a patch.
At one point in time I had a gnats database set up for GNU Pascal, but it never really got used. If it would get used, I can set it up again. It does add more overhead than just the texi file, but it does allow people to ask what happened to a previous bug report without bothering the list or any developer.
Not to disparage your effort, but setting up the database is one thing. Another thing is entering and updating the entries. And apparently, nobody would do that, at least back then, as you noticed. As far as I'm concerned, anything that adds more overhead is really counterproductive. 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).
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.
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 ...
Frank