Fate vs Bugzilla for feature tracking

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.01.09 17:45:07, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 21.01.09 17:18:40, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 January 2009 11:07:17 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:
> > > >
> > > > 	http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/do-you-believe-in-fate.html
> > > >
> > > > so i won't bother repeating it all over again in this email.
> > > >
> > > > it would be good if we could discuss this issue. i'm not really
> > > > convinced personally about whether Fate is The Solution for us or
> > > > not, but i'm also really unsatisfied with
> > > > Bugzilla-as-feature-coordinator.
> > > >
> > > > discuss! =)
> > >
> > > I have yet to see anything concrete from you (or anybody else
> > > except lemma) regarding things that would make Bugzilla easier for
> > > them or their group (other than your s/wishlist/feature request/
> > > priority change that i royally screwed up and have yet to redo). If
> > > you know what you want, I can make it happen, we don't have to
> > > worry about another system, everybody's happy.
> >
> > Oh, I just found something that I would find pretty useful: Grouping
> > of query results. Currently all I can do is order the result by one
> > of the columns, but I'd also like to group them by another property.
> > This would allow to see all bugs for a product, grouped by component
> > and orderd by priority, which makes it easy to pick a good task to
> > start next :)
> 
> Bugzilla uses a stable sort. This means sorting by priority and then by 
> component gives you the desired result.

No it doesn't, because its still a long lists of results. I also implied that
the groups would be visually distinct without me scanning each line. 

Andreas
 
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