Re: Problem with web TODO list

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Go ahead.  I find a database is more work but if someone else
> > wants to try it, they are welcome.  I will continue
> > maintaining the TODO for a while just in case the new idea
> > doesn't work out, like it didn't last time.  :-)
>
> Actually, the even more important things about this I beleive are:
>
> 1) Unless you, who are actually going to maintain it, think it's good,
> it's never going to work. And I'm certainly no saying someone else
> (expecially not me! :P) should maintain it... (while it could perhaps be
> shared, but that can be done either way)
>
> 2) I *personally* think it should also be combined with being some kind
> of bug tracker (more along the line of a general issue tracker), and
> that's *definitly* going to fly unless the people who would use it most
> (-core and other main developers) want it. And the archives are full of
> discussinos about that ;-)
>
>
> If you're interested in giving at least (1) a try, let me know. But
> since you're the guy who maintains it (and has been for a long time),
> you're the one who knows what the specs will have to be so it fullfills
> your requiremetns :-)

The big issue here is time investment vs. payback.  On the one extreme,
you have what we have now --- a flat file that I can edit in 2 seconds
and push into CVS and the web with one command.  On the other end, you
have the bugzilla monster that is very hard to understand let alone use.

The issue is what do you want to track, and how much time is it worth
expending to track it.  Personally, I am just fine with the current
system.  I don't have enough time to do the important things, let alone
time to track who requested certain features and why, and I don't think
it is useful for me to change that.  If others want to expend the time,
I will support them in hopes that they will expend the time to track it
and I will not have to be as involved.

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