Re: Bug reports and documentation updates
Re: Bug reports and documentation updates
- Subject: Re: Bug reports and documentation updates
- From: Chris Meyer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:21:10 -0700
Here's a great example of a searchable bug database:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
It is a completely searchable database including every bug and
discussion of bugs regarding mozilla.
The reason I don't find Radar as useful is that as a developer I need
the following essential information about a bug:
- is it a known bug?
- when will it be fixed?
- is there a workaround?
The mailing lists are somewhat useful towards these ends, but the only
one that has a decent interface is cocoa-dev (thanks
http://cocoa.mamasam.com). If only something similar existed for the
other lists. But after several years of requesting mailing list
improvements from Apple and getting the reply "Big changes are just
around the corner!" I've given up.
The Wiki site
http://cocoadev.com/ is also helpful, especially as more
developers report and discuss their bugs; I've added many of my bugs to
pages.
But perhaps a centralized community bug reporting database "AppleZilla"
would be useful. If all developers used that instead of Radar, then
Apple could mine it for the information that they wanted and transfer
it to radar; developers could then report their bugs on AppleZilla and
search it, developers could report workarounds, suggestions, votes,
etc. on AppleZilla! Anyone interested?
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 07:24 AM, Phill Kelley wrote:
There *is* an alternative. Simply make the Radar database searchable.
That
way, when you or I notice a problem, we can go and see if it has
already
been reported.
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