[ZODB-Dev] Re: proposal for util renaming

[Casey Duncan]

On Sun, 30 May 2004 16:28:22 -0400
"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:

> [John Belmonte, on trying to track specific Collector issues]
> > This is a fairly serious usability issue, especially for people that
> > aren't interested in following the entire Zope project (e.g.,
> > non-developers, users of ZODB only, etc.).  It seems to have been
> > sitting there unresolved since 2001.  I know Zope is determined to
> > eat its own cooking, but it would be nice to use Bugzilla or
> > something.
> 
> I don't see that happening, at least for the obvious pragmatic reason:
>  it
> appears that the people working on the Collector indeed ran out of
> both paid and "spare" time for it in 2001.  Changing to a different
> system now would also require substantial time and effort.  Who would
> do the work?
> 
> So, while I may be wrong (e.g., perhaps you'll do the work ...), I
> don't expect anything to change here in the foreseeable future.
> 
> I should note that the people most able to make the changes probably
> appear in the "Assign To" dropdown list of potential supporters.  Such
> people can already get email notifications on specific issues by
> assigning themselves to those issues.  So they don't have a personal
> itch here (the system"already works" for them), so are unlikely to
> spend Memorial Day scratching someone else's itch.

I added a issue topic for ZODB to the Zope Collector. At least if issues
get assigned to this topic, that will allow you to filter the Zope
collector to show only ZODB issues (through the web anyway).

-Casey