Hello, On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Balaviswa nathanv wrote: > I need a one with GUI controls too
The web has a GUI interface and so does mail so that may not be the point. IMHO one difference is where the data is kept. With trac/redmine, the discussion is on the web site. So if you want a local copy you need to run something like wwwoffle and you need to subscribe to an RSS feed to know when something has been commented on. Mail subscription is sometimes possible but I am not sure how well these systems would scale if 100's of people e-mail subscribed to various pages. In the case of bugzilla, the discussion is archived centrally but each subscriber gets a copy through mail _without_ additional configuration. This copy can be kept for local reference by saving to a folder. In an increasingly networked world it is easy to forget where your data actually is (and who controls it. ;-) ). On the other hand creating discussion summaries over mail is really much harder than doing it in a wiki like in trac. Reading through a thread to figure out what the conclusion(s) was/were is terrible. Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
