[Bf-committers] Addon bug reports

[Jonathan Smith]

I think it would be great to have a new tracker for addon bugs. I know there
was one a _long_ time ago, but it didn't get much use (There was only ever a
total of 10 bugs I think... including closed ones), which would explain why
it got shut down.

+1

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com> wrote:

> That sounds like a great plan to me. :-)
> +1
>
> --Nathan
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hey everyone,
> >> I am getting increasingly frustrated that Rigify bugs are being
> >> reported as comments on the same damn bug report:
> >>
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=469&aid=25546&group_id=153
> >>
> >> I notice that in all included Blender addons (including Rigify) there
> >> is a "report a bug" link that points to an individual report such as
> >> this, which I presume is what's causing users to simply append their
> >> own bugs to this single bug report.  As a maintainer this is extremely
> >> frustrating because it means I cannot manage Rigify's bug reports
> >> properly (i.e. there are no real reports, just comments).
> >>
> >> I want to check if this is the intended behavior for users to take
> >> when reporting addon bugs.  If not, then I will simply close the
> >> report and include an explanation for them to file new reports for
> >> their bugs.  On the other hand, if it is the intended behavior for
> >> users to take... why?  It makes me far more apt to miss reports,
> >> forget that I haven't already fixed something, etc.  And it is
> >> hair-pullingly frustrating to not have the satisfaction of marking
> >> something as fixed after I fix it.
> >>
> >> --Nathan V
> >
> > It is the intended behavior but I don't think it works well at all,
> >
> > I think this is how extensions were planned by extensions admins long
> > before they were used for addons - guessing
> >  - Nathan Letwory  / Luca Bonavita (mindrones) / Brendon Murphy
> > (meta-androcto) ? --- not sure though.
> >
> > IMHO addons _as_ issues Its bad because...
> > - You cant look at the list and pick a bug to fix.
> > - You don't get a sense of which addons are buggy or which developers
> > are not maintaining their work.
> > - It discourages devs fixing bugs in other peoples addons because they
> > have to look into the addon to find bugs.
> > - Issues get mixed up - false alarms are mixed with real issues, no
> > way to remove invalid comments.
> > - You don't any get satisfaction from closing bug reports, or getting
> > the tracker below 50 :D
> >
> > Discussed with Luca and we tentatively agreed to move to match
> > bf-blender bug tracker style where each issue being a bug - but I'm
> > not sure when of if this is planned - Luca didn't have time for it
> > last we talked, so maybe others can arrange for this.
> >
> > Prefer we keep the wiki's as is (that works well), but have 1 tracker
> > for extensions, starting new trackers is quite trivial (did this for
> > BMesh) so we could start a new one, and make links in the interface go
> > to the new tracker, then slowly move reports over from the existing
> > tracker to the new one.
> >
> > I can do this if nobody else wants to but interested to hear from
> > other addon admins/devs what they think of this first.
> >
> > - Campbell
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