Re: Bug tracker tool we need

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> I do basically agree with this. I was reflecting on the bug tracker
> issue (or lack thereof) for unrelated reasons earlier today and I
> think there are some very nice things to recommend the current
> email-based system, which are the reasons you identify above. Perhaps
> the area where it falls down is structured searches (such as for
> "closed" or "wontfix") and tracking progress of related, complex, or
> multi-part issues that span multiple root email messages.
>
> Maybe just using the message-ids to cross reference things (or at
> least morally: perhaps a point of indirection as to collapse multiple
> bug reports about the same thing, or to provide a place to add more
> annotation would be good, not unlike the CommitFest web application in
> relation to emails) is enough. Basically, perhaps an overlay
> on-top-of email might be a more supple way to figure out what process
> improvements work well without committing to a whole new tool chain
> and workflow all at once.

+1. This is almost word-for-word how I feel about it myself.

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