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2010-08-25 , 17:17
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Originally Posted by Andre Klapper at community mailing list
http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging#Bugtracker_location states
"It is possible to [...] use [...] an email address."
No mentioning of size of project.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing...rting_database states "An e-mail address for small projects (wallpapers, for example) can be used".

Now which one is correct? (Plus the same topic/info with slight
differences spread on different pages is not cool.)

Asking for clarification because of discussion on
http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...acts/0.9.13-1/

andre
(Source: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...st/004380.html )

What do you think regarding this topic?
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2010-08-25 , 17:38
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Inconsistencies, meh.
Mignight Commander had my email set as the bugtracker, and it was promoted.

In its current situation, I'd rather keep all my packages in extras-devel
 

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2010-08-25 , 18:23
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Email should be fine IMHO. As long as there is some point of contact for reporting bugs, the package should pass the bugtracker criteria.
 

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2010-08-25 , 18:57
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Handling bugs in private through email doesn't sound like good open source practices. Using a bug tracker gives better visibility to open bugs and their status so I'd go for a public bug tracker.

That's just my 0.02. At the end of the day it's the developer's decision how to handle bugs.
 

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2010-08-26 , 06:28
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Originally Posted by timoph View Post
Handling bugs in private through email doesn't sound like good open source practices.
It's not a good software development practice in general, regardless of the licence. Sygic and Opera are a couple of examples from the non-free camp.

That's just my 0.02. At the end of the day it's the developer's decision how to handle bugs.
Exactly. It's a good idea to have a "real" bugtracker for many reasons, but it shouldn't be a blocker for package promotion.
 

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2010-08-26 , 12:40
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Exactly. It's a good idea to have a "real" bugtracker for many reasons, but it shouldn't be a blocker for package promotion.
Indeed. More discussion happening on maemo-developers:

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...st/004380.html
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2010-08-26 , 12:55
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Originally Posted by timoph View Post
Handling bugs in private through email doesn't sound like good open source practices. Using a bug tracker gives better visibility to open bugs and their status so I'd go for a public bug tracker.
Well, first of all, a .deb package does not have to be open-source. There are binary-only packages as well. Secondly, it is up to developer to determine a way how he is going to handle bug reports, if at all. The GPL says nothing about handling bug reports, so developers using GPL are not legally bound to do any bug report handling.
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2010-08-26 , 14:46
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Well, first of all, a .deb package does not have to be open-source. There are binary-only packages as well.
I know debs don't have to contain the sources. I could have just as well referred to good practices in general like lma pointed out and was absolutely correct.

Originally Posted by fms View Post
Secondly, it is up to developer to determine a way how he is going to handle bug reports, if at all. The GPL says nothing about handling bug reports, so developers using GPL are not legally bound to do any bug report handling.
Well I did say "At the end of the day it's the developer's decision how to handle bugs."

And my final comment to this thread: GPL doesn't state many things that are considered good practices but people are doing so anyway. If some people don't want to follow good practices then it's really their own choice and loss.
 
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