From rossini at blindglobe.net  Mon Jan 19 00:13:08 2004
From: rossini at blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)
Date: Mon Jan 19 00:09:55 2004
Subject: [Rd] Wish list
In-Reply-To: <20040118230458.GA24797@gmx.de> (Fernando Henrique Ferraz's
	message of "Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:04:58 -0200")
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Fernando Henrique Ferraz <feferraz@ime.usp.br> writes:

> A.J. Rossini writes:
>> That's my point.  Maintainance is critical, and any time spent on
>> systems administration (systems in the generic sense, here it's
>> bug-tracking) is less time spent on other more useful, or interesting,
>> or high-payoff items.
>> 
>> I'm probably not the only one who wished Peter had more time for other
>> things...
>> 
>
>         I agree that it would  probably take some time to set up the new system,
> and maintaince at the beggining would take time too. On the other hand I believe
> that the  producitivy gain fostered by the new system on the long term  could perhaps
> counterbalance the initial effort. The main effort would be setting up the new
> system and handdling accounts to the package mantainers, after that, most of it
> would be left to the users of the system. I don't have much experience with
> administrating the Bugzilla system yet but I'm installing in my box and will post
> my experiences to the list.

Excellent!  It would be great to have a place to track bugs for
packages.  Best of luck!

best,
-tony

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