Bug tracking

[Pratyush Yadav]

On 25/03/21 11:14AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What do people think of setting up a bug tracker on gitlab.com or
> github.com? They both allow anyone to register and thus file bugs.

You would need people to maintain the bugs that are reported in the 
tracker. Asking for clear, reproducible info, closing duplicates or old 
bugs, etc. Then you need people dedicated to fixing those bugs. Sure, 
some can be taken up by subsystem maintainers or active devs, but what 
to do with the ones that aren't?

My point is, having a bug tracker needs volunteers to help maintain it. 
Otherwise it would not be very useful and important bugs would get 
drowned in the noise or be left stale. We can experiment with it but we 
need to keep in mind the extra effort required.

> 
> Another option is to use source.denx.de but that would require
> allowing anyone to register so is probably a non-starter.

Honestly, source.denx.de makes the most sense to me. I would expect the 
Gitlab instance where the repo is hosted to also be where the bug 
tracker is hosted. Makes it much easier to find.

But if allowing anyone to register is a no-go, then I would prefer 
something decentralized/non-proprietary to keep the project independent 
of the host. But people generally aren't very enthusiastic about those 
because the proprietary solutions are just so easy to use...

> 
> For guthub one advantage is that we always have a mirror there. For
> gitlab we might be able to ask nicely and get the URL.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Texas Instruments Inc.