[mythtv] should mythtv be forked?

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Tue Mar 22 07:58:55 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:26 am, Thomas Börkel wrote:
> HI!
>
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> > I'm using it as much as people submitting to it are.  I don't use it for
> > my own bugs I find, because I fix them as I find them, and going through
> > the process of submitting a bug for myself, and then marking it as fixed
> > immediately seems rather silly.
>
> Some time ago, in our company, they forced us to make entries in the bug
> tracker even for our own bugs, which we found by ourselves. At first I
> thought this is silly, too. But now, I have changed my mind. It is more
> work for the developers (however, compared to reproducing, fixing,
> debugging and testing, it's not much), but it greatly helps the project,
> because issues can be better tracked. Other people (also other devs)
> find this information in the bug tracker very useful and it also helps
> for the release notes.

<shrug> I just like using the commit message for that sort of thing.  It'll be 
seen by more people (everyone on the commits list) than a bug that I 
open/close immediately (only me, the way bugzilla's configured).

Isaac


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