[pacman-dev] community is active by default

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/2/13, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> On 2/13/07, Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/2/13, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de>:
> > > Well, at the moment bugs cannot assigned to TUs. Perhaps it might be a good
> > > idea to introduce a community-section; but i don`t think we should discuss
> > > this at pacman-dev ;-)
> >
> > I think the field comments is sufficient.
>
> So, what if a package has 20 or so bugs over the course of it's
> lifetime.  Each bug having 2-3 responses from the maintainer and the
> users.  That's a lot of comments with no order to it.  One could say
> "delete the old ones", but then you lose history, which is important
> sometimes.
>
> AUR comments are NOT sufficient to replace a full blown bug tracker.
> Hell, if it WAS sufficient, why don't we move the AUR comments scheme
> to the official package list?  No more package bugs in the bug
> tracker, use the package comments.  Sounds like a bad idea.  For the
> same reason, deeming AUR comments sufficient for bug tracking is
> equally as bad.

Well, there's no strict line between comments and bugtracker. Imagine
tons of bugs like "Add license field". ;-)
You wanna kill mr.bughunter? :-D

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)