Grouper Developers Forum

[Will Norris <>]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Will Norris wrote:

> The biggest problem I see with Google Code's issue tracking is the  
> lack of a defined vocabulary for "labels" (of course, one could  
> also argue that this is one if its biggest features).  While the  
> looseness of the labels definitely allows for great flexibility,  
> there needs to be some kind of common vocabulary which other issues  
> tracking systems (bugzilla, jira, et al) provide.  Most new users  
> submitting tickets will probably not know that they need to label  
> their issue with "Milestone:API_1.0.1", whereas this would be  
> rather obvious in something like bugzilla.

actually, Milestone was a bad example.  But there is still a lot of  
metadata about a submitted ticket (version, component, platform, etc)  
that is much more likely to get overlooked in a system like Google  
Code, so you'll spend a lot of time asking the submitter to include  
that information as well as correcting labels.

-will



> I think you'll spend quite a bit of time fixing the labels of  
> issues to fit into the vocabulary that you have chosen for the  
> project.
>
> I think we're a long way off from having to worry about search for  
> tickets... there's a whopping three active tickets for Grouper  
> right now in bugzilla.
>
> -will
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2006, at 9:52 AM, blair christensen. wrote:
>
> > For the past week I've been experimenting with using Google Code as a
> > replacement issue tracker for Grouper.  I've set up a test
> > [i2mi-grouper project][0] which I have been using.
> >
> > As anyone who has looked at Grouper's Bugzilla instance lately can
> > tell I haven't been paying much (well, any) attention to it.  Far too
> > often Bugzilla felt like more of a hindrance while working through
> > reported issues, its searching and categorizing capabilities and
> > restrictions always frustrated me, and in most cases I would spend
> > more time dealing with Bugzilla than with the actual reported issues.
> >
> > Now, Google Code is far from perfect but even with its current flaws
> > it has been more enjoyable to work with than Bugzilla.  Of course, if
> > Google fixes the issues I've reported it will be a lot more usable.
> >
> > I think it is "good enough" at this point but I would be curious to
> > know how others felt about it - and switching to it.
> >
> > [0]: <http://code.google.com/p/i2mi-grouper/>

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