new bug tracker

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Andrew Conkling wrote:

>Brian,
>I'm making a post on the forums to reflect this; I'll put them at the
>top of Feature Requests and Bugs, fittingly.
>
>A question for you devs: Do you read the forums for those two things, or
>better: do you plan to now that the bugzilla is up?  If not, I'll note
>it in the forums and perhaps those two "topics" should dissolve....
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personally, i never read the forums.  it takes me enough time to keep up 
with these mailing lists, the IRC channel, and the bug tracker.  i know 
some of the other devs do read the forum, however, but, i'll leave it to 
them to say how often.

    -brian

>Andrew
>
>Some time ago (probably on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:44:09 -0700)
>"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> had occasion to say the
>following:
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>>hi all-
>>
>>those of you following xfce4-dev can probably just skim this.
>>
>>otherwise, we're now using bugzilla (http://bugzilla.org/) to track
>>xfce-related bugs.  if the old http://bugs.xfce.org/ address hasn't
>>been redirected yet, use http://bugzilla.xfce.org/ in the meantime.
>>
>>if you had an account on the old bug tracker, you still do, but you'll
>>need to reset your password.  click on the "log in" link, and enter
>>your email address in the box on the bottom of the page (not the login
>>box, but the one that specifically talks about forgetting your email
>>address).  note that your username is now your email address, and not
>>the 'nickname' from the old bug tracker.
>>
>>if you're unfamiliar with how bugzilla works, i've included a link to
>>"brian's bugzilla cheatsheet" at the top of the main page.
>>
>>for bug reporting, you have a choice of a guided format (a
>>step-by-step procedure for gathering the info you need to make a good
>>report) or an advanced format (bunch of boxes to set and fill in). 
>>these are both linked from the main page as well.
>>
>>i've also created a page of common queries that you can use if the
>>advanced search page seems too intimidating (also linked from the main
>>page).
>>
>>unlike the old bug tracker, we encourage you to submit feature
>>requests via bugzilla (just be sure to mark the severity as
>>'enhancement').  you might want to join the xfce4-dev list as well to
>>discuss your feature.
>>
>>that's about it.  email me with any comments, concerns, suggestions,
>>or problems.  happy bug hunting!
>>
>>	-brian
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