Fate vs Bugzilla for feature tracking

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009 4:37:35 pm Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > hello =)
> >
> > after a few weeks of (patient :) consultation with the Suse team
> > working on Fate, i just blogged about the possibility of using Fate
> > for feature tracking in KDE. you can read about it here:
> >


> Another alternative would be using Fate as tool for developers only, 
> i.e. only developers would be able to create feature requests on Fate. 
> If a developer wants to discuss (and eventually implement) a feature 
> posted on Bugzilla he could create a new entry on Fate and link it to 
> the corresponding Bugzilla entry. This way the developers could take 
> advantage of Fate without confusing the users by having two different 
> spots for reporting bugs resp. for submitting feature requests.
> 
I like the idea of a developer tool, separate from bko.

A place were patches and code-snippets and ideas and brainstorming can be co-located.
This would not be a place for users to wander in.

Sorta like how we separate TechBase from UserBase.

So many patches and ideas get lost -- developers come and go -- and we lose
good info a lot of the time.  Or we discuss the same stuff over and over again.