[cvsnt] CVSNT gets more and more unstable (too much releases)

[Bernhard Merkle]

Eclipse and others are using bugzilla (or what ever you want) perfectly 
and are open source. You get lower noise, because it is more work to
write a real bug report that to write a e-mail/news posting.

Later, searching and finding certain bugs is much more easier than to 
search a news-archive. Why do we have databases ? You can see the status 
of the bug, the discussion etc etc. If you are using news/mail this is 
too weak. Please look at this thread. It already has been split too much
(someone even started a new thread, because of his mailer/newsreader).
I think i is just inefficient.



Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> 
>>
>> You're probably talking about the noise in a bug database with public
>> report access. That's really sad, because one would think that open 
>> source
>> would actually make this easier, with having many more reporters.
> 
> 
> You have more reporters but even after filtering out the noise, many of 
> them never respond - I lost count of the number of bugs I had to close 
> because I couldn't replicate and the reporter never responded to 
> requests for more information.  Some (perhaps many) of these will have 
> been genuine issues.
> 
> It's perfectly understandable really.. the people reporting have real 
> jobs, and they're just motivated to report a bug because something 
> didn't work for them.. they're not professional testers or anything.
> 
> In a closed system like a company the reporter is normally either a 
> tester, who's job it is to give good bug reports, or someone who you can 
> walk over to and ask.  It's much easier that way.
> 
> Tony