[Zope3-dev] The bug fixing problem

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
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> Snipping further collector complaints.  The bug fiing problem is
> *not* a tool issue.

I agree it isn't primarily or just a tool issue, but we do have tool 
issues and there are better tools out there. Developers would be helped 
by a tool which encourages people to interact with it instead of scares 
it, and people who submit bugs would be helped by getting clearer 
information about the status of their bug.

A way to mark bugs for milestones is in my opinion, for instance, a 
better way to handle bugs than having to mark them critical to get them 
picked up and considered before a Zope release happens. More modest 
submitters may mark something as 'bug', and their bug might not be 
seen.. With a milestone mechanism instead of relying on 'critical' it 
becomes a lot easier to defer things to a following release, with less 
risk of actually losing track of issues. I believe that without 
deferring issues, a release of a large piece of software like Zope 3 is 
in fact not possible, given limited resources.

Regards,

Martijn