[Zope-CMF] Re: CMF collector on Launchpad?

[Charlie Clark]

Am 13.08.2007 um 10:49 schrieb Hanno Schlichting:

> I'm +0.5 on moving away from anything on zope.org. I find the  
> collector
> UI and speed suboptimal to work with. Launchpad provides a reasonable
> good bug tracker from my experience (I mostly reported bugs against  
> the
> launchpad translation system itself in the past ;)).
>
> Personally I find trac a lot more efficient to work with, though. But
> it's UI is definitely geared towards developers (which is in the  
> end the
> prime target group for CMF).

Trac certainly *looks* good and has done to highlight usability  
deficiences of other bug trackers such as Bugzilla and Collector.

> I'll dare to speak out the unthinkable and as an alternative option
> suggest to move the CMF bug tracker to a trac instance hosted on  
> plone.org.

Andrew Milton has at least done a wrapper so you can run Trac on a  
Zope site. But having spent some time on Trac I would be against  
using it in its current form for a product as complex as the CMF. It  
has an appalling data model which is simply not suited to any form of  
dependency.

> A common user database between the Plone and CMF bug trackers is a
> bigger benefit than the common user base between CMF and Zope I think.
> But maybe our two communities still don't overlap enough for that idea
> to work out ;)

I think there's merit in having some form of connection Zope -> CMF - 
 > Plone for reporting bugs in which case I would be in favour of  
either modifying Collector or Launchpad for our needs.

I've not posted or dealt with a great many bugs but have not found  
the form of the Collector to be a big problem. It's certainly easier  
to use than Bugzilla. What is often a greater issue is actually  
tackling bugs that do get submitted.

Charlie
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