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From: fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu (Roy T. Fielding)
Subject: Re: Towards a free GNU Ada
Date: 1997/07/08
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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