[Gimp-developer] Re: More interface rantings

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Scott schreef:
> Okay, I'm ashamed to admit that I don't even know what a bugzilla
> is. I guess I always thought a "bug" was something that actually made
> a program non-functional, rather than the things that make it only
> function at a sub-par level, so I wouldn't have even thought to look
> in a "bug report" for interface details. Sorry to have wasted anyone's
> time. Keep up the good work.

In a sense you were right.

Projects need to track bugs (in the narrow sense of the word, like what 
you think of as a bug) but also feature requests, interface improvements 
and other issues. The way to track all those things turns out to be 
exactly the same, so it makes sense to put all of them in the same issue 
tracker instead of having a bug tracker and a feature request tracker 
etc. Because of that, all these issues are often called bugs, even if 
that is not 100% technically correct.

Gimp's bug tracker is Bugzilla and can be found at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GIMP. Bugzilla is used in 
many open source projects (and presumably many other projects as well) 
and was first created for the Mozilla project; it has its own website at 
http://www.bugzilla.org/.

-- 
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven