BugZilla for Cygwin, PLEASE!

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 12:22 PM Cedric Blancher  wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 07:58, Marco Atzeri  wrote:
> >
> > On 18/12/2023 07:45, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I don't see whether this has been discussed before,
> > > but PLEASE could Cygwin get a bug tracker (BUGZILLA!)?
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
> >
> > the bandwidth of current maintainers is the major constraint
> >
> > The current bugtracker is this mailing list
>
> Yeah, from a project administrator and project management  viewpoint
> this is just stupid.

Maybe, but it works for us.

> A bug tracker like Bugzilla would improve the "little bandwidth" the
> maintainers have, by organising them better. It would make them more
> efficient. That said, PLEASE don't use JIRA or AZURE bugtracker, that
> would be an overkill and lead to worse performance. Just plain old
> Bugzilla.

You are assuming that we are a coordinated large team.
We are few maintainers working very asynchronous

> Ced

Feel free to join us and improve the things

   https://cygwin.com/contrib.html

Regards
Marco