John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> said:
> > And what about GNATS? What about the others on
> > http://www.a-a-p.org/tools_tracking.html ? A number of those address
> > the web-based concern. Do any of them answer your other concerns? If
> > there are, where do those fail that bugzilla, GNATS, etc. get it right?
>
> Why are you so against somebody sitting down and thinking, "OK, we
> need a bug tracking database designed for debugging the Linux
> kernel."?
I didn't see anybody saying that...
> I don't understand why you think it's a bad idea to start
> over. If my code was rubbish, then it wouldn't get used, and I wasted
> my time. Nobody else suffers.
Except for the users who tried it out, and the people who read the ensuing
flamewars ;-)
"Start over" is one thing, "start over as if nothing had been done before"
is another (and a bad idea, whatever you are trying to do).
Linux has borrowed much from Unix, in design and also in avoiding mistakes
made elsewhere. Do follow this example.
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