BackupPC 3.3.1 has amazingly few bugs to be fixed, handling them as
"issues" on github can be a satisfactory way of keeping track.
Nevertheless, I suggest to have a short discussion whether, in the long
run, some tool specifically designed for bug-tracking (for instance
Bugzilla) should be considered. Here are a couple of arguments:
- formulating an "issue" in Github is adequate to document a problem,
but (as far as I now) there is not much support for structuring and
organizing the discussion between the players during bug resolution;
- such discussions will be more complex and demanding as maintenance and
development is distributed over a larger number of persons;
- introducing BackupPC 4 might, if only for a short period of time,
increase the number of bugs to be dealt with;
- bug-tracking tools offer facilities for managing bug-handling (e.g.
priority, responsibility, dependencies, attachments), and for exploring
closed bugs and evaluating issues that happened in the past;
- the documentation created by a bug-tracking tool might be valuable in
case of contestation - to provide solid proof that maintenance of
BackupPC is professionally done and corresponds to "best-effort"
criteria - for instance in the (very unlikely) case of a law-suit
claiming damage due to some mis-function of BackupPC;
- putting a bug-tracking tool in place and maintaining it in operation
represents a non-negligeable chore to be assured - is this worth while?;
- although Bugzilla is probably the best known and well used
bug-tracking tool presently available, there exist alternatives - if
such a tool is to be used, this requires evaluating and deciding.
Juergen
I have seen very little traffic on backuppc-devel; posting this here,
users may be interested.
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