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  Bug Trackers: Do They Really All Suck?
Subject:   bugtracker TRAC rocks
Date:   2005-12-28 12:11:10
From:   ttriche
Response to: bugtracker TRAC rocks

> #3 - The insistence of bug trackers on categorization is wrong;
> you end up with a proliferation of dropdown lists for project,
> platform, subsystem, release, customer...with inevitable clashes
> over which list a label should go in (is a customer-specific build
> a project or a release?) I'd like to see a system which lets you add
> and remove tags instead.


Finally, a useful task for tags! ;-)


This is an excellent idea and (as with the most elegant solutions) obvious once someone mentions it. With a capable database (SQLite or PostgreSQL are supported by Trac, I'm sure FogBugz has some sort of DB backend too) a simple many-to-many table would suffice (and eliminate dupes if you stemmed and soundexed the entries upon creation).


It would be easier for users and for developers (eg. to aggregate and perform meta-analyses to determine the highest-impact direction for new development or refactoring). I think I will search the Trac list, and if it hasn't been suggested, I will bring it up.