On 27.01.2011 10:56, Jan Vlčinský (CAD) wrote:
Hi all My comments
*Mailing list* It works well for me now as I have most e-mails in my GMail already. But initial research was not easy, as had to download some archives and search through them. Any solution offering search box would be welcome. Like Google Groups or whatsoever. But whatever you pick, just check, how accessible the search is. I already met few phpBB installations, where it was hard or impossible to search.
The list is archived, and my search box is called "Google search", restricted to site:mailman.uni-konstanz.de/pipermail/basex-talk/
I think that despite the rather primitive nature of mailing list workflows, it works amazingly well, also for other archived mailing lists that I'm on. Therefore I don't feel that there's an immediate need to change this. Another (admittedly minor and surmountable) thing to consider is: if there is a new system, will it be feasible to import the current archive so that you don't have to search two different archives?
*Bug tracking* What I like on Open Source is, that I have strong chance, that if there are some known problems, I can find them in advance by simple research of bug list and discussions. I remember the time, when I was developing AutoCAD applications, deciding technology to use, researched available resources, found no problems, entered the technology and hit the problem. Answer "What you describe has ID 123456 in our bug tracking system" was something what upset me quite well. That time we were already spending some hours on it we could avoid this, if the bug list would be open.
I second that. Maybe team will figure out a way to make their Redmine or whatever system may suit better public.
-Gerrit