features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:11:01AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>> At FUDCon Milan, we discussed using Trac to manage Spin process - it's
>> actually very similar process. And for tracking stuff I think it's more
>> suitable than Bugzilla - custom states, better overviews + use Wiki just
>> for feature description/overview as it's easier editable than Trac ticket.
>
> The reason I like Bugzilla over Trac for this is that it's easy to link the
> actual work (in the form of bugzilla entries against packages), which
> reduces the overhead by making it almost automatic once the tracking bug is
> set up. By contrast, a Trac instance would need to be manually updated and
> maintained, wouldn't it?

Trac is also horrible to work in.  Bugzilla isn't leaps and bounds better
but at least it sends reasonable plain-text emails that don't have
horrible wiki syntax in them.

Thank you for avoiding new suggested uses of trac.

josh