Bug & Feature wish tracking

Currently, we don’t have a bug tracking system. We used at one point the one of Savannah but it is not very convenient to use (too slow). In any case, if you have a bug or a feature wish to submit, the simplest thing to do is to send an email to demexp-dev@non-gnu.org mailing list and we’ll add it to the relevant wiki page.

We need to change that for the future.

We need to fulfill following requirements:

• a simple way for the wide public to submit bugs, etheir through a web interface (mandatory) or with emails (optionnaly);
• a simple way for the wide public and developers to browse the bug & feature wish database and add comments, more information, etc.;
• an efficient way for the developer to manage bugs, review them, classify them, etc.

Those three points could be accomplished by different interconnected systems or a single one.

When deploying a new system, we need to take into account our system constraints on RAS or linux-france.org.

• Bugzilla Only web interface.

• Mantis PHP/MySQL. Only web interface.

• Bugs Everywhere A decentralized system, where bugs are stored in a text database. An extension is available for Mercurial (cf. this email);

• Roundup Interesting list of features. Apparently, can be easily deployed with only Python (available on lfo’s tuxinette machine) but can also support a real database backend. Web, email and command line interfaces.

• Savannah bug system Can be reasonnably configured but very slow. Only web interface.