Fate vs Bugzilla for feature tracking

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 26 January 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 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.ht
> > > > >ml
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.

I guess our best option would be to revive KBugBuster. :-)


Regards,
Ingo
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