Re: [dev] GSoC 2010

About the mail part of the bug tracker.. why not push 'dmc'? and
fix the imap protocol, implement the SMTP part and write a frontend.

This can sound like not so much work..but it does from the side that
it is actually not usable application, and it needs some love.

I think that a decent minimal mail solution is mandatory for most of us..
So.. is anyone going to work on it? :)

--pancake

Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> Another idea that I'd like to push this year is the creation of a
> suckless issue tracking/bug tracking system. All existing systems suck
> and it is still a burden for projects and small businesses to track
> bugs or customer issues in less sucking ways. The existing
> alternatives are all a big desgrace, can't speak of those commercial
> ones, but I guess they ain't any better than the floss ones.
>
> Approaches like trac do too many things, and hence fail at doing issue
> tracking right. A friend pointed me to the debian bug tracking system
> (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-refcard) and I must admit I kind of
> like parts of it.
>
> I think it is a strong requirement for a decent issue tracker to have
> a decent mail integration, people don't want to use hairy web
> interfaces and developers or customer relation staff doesn't wants to
> use them either -- RT for instance is good in the mail integration,
> but it does too many things and has a bad web interface that really
> sucks.
>
> Kind regards,
> Anselm
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 03 2010 - 10:17:14 UTC