From: fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu (Roy T. Fielding)
Subject: Re: Towards a free GNU Ada
Date: 1997/07/08
Date: 1997-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5puok3$j84@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Jul8.071610.1@eisner
In <1997Jul8.071610.1@eisner>
kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>It seems to me that what you quote from Robert, and what you say in reply,
>(mostly not quoted here), goes not to the issue of a "publically maintained
>problem tracking system" but rather some sort of volunteer bugfix exchange.
No, I was talking about a problem tracking system -- something that let's
people record a problem and a sequence of replies or fixes to the problem
such that everyone can see the problem report and its status. Not all
reports would result in a bugfix. Mailing lists are sufficient to exchange
bug fixes, but not to track problems.
>Those two are worlds apart. Please do not tar the notion of a "publically
>maintained problem tracking system" with the same brush of practicality
>debates as a bugfix exchange. Note that a problem tracking system can
>work for multiple Ada products, with no regard to whether sources are
>public.
Yes, just as it is possible to fix a problem without providing a patch.
Making a distinction between the two is pointless.
....Roy
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-03 0:00 Towards a free GNU Ada James Rogers
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-10 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1997-07-05 0:00 ` Roy T. Fielding
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Ada User Reports Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Towards a free GNU Ada Roy T. Fielding
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Roy T. Fielding
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Roy T. Fielding [this message]
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-07-06 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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1997-07-06 0:00 Re " Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-15 0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1997-07-16 0:00 Robert Dewar
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