Hi all,

I'm a bit concerned by the headlong rush to refactor phpbugsweb to
include PEAR and PECL bugs.  The concept is fine by me, but starting
with phpbugsweb as the starting point is a big mistake if you plan to
include PEAR bugs.  The PEAR bug tracker has several killer features
that you will have to pry from my cold dead fingers before I would
accept a merge with the phpbugsweb

1) patch tracker complete with versioned patches
2) roadmap support with auto-generation of package.xml based on closed
bugs/features
3) limited-privilege accounts eliminate the need for CAPTCHA altogether
(all you need is the ability to check email and fill in a form with name
and password after the fact).  We haven't had any spam bugs since
implementation and it is more handicapper-accessible. 
http://pear.php.net/bugs/report.php?package=PEAR_ErrorStack to see an
example, all that is required is a valid email address and the ability
to add or subtract numbers between 1 and 100

The main problem with the codebase of pearweb/bugs is that it depends on
the core of pearweb (bad) and so needs to be independentized, but we are
doing this ASAP.  roadmap for the website is at
http://pear.php.net/bugs/roadmap.php?package=pearweb

Of course, it's also in the process of being refactored along with the
rest of pearweb (unit tests *gasp*) so please don't discount a look at
this codebase, no matter how bigoted against PEAR you might be ;)

Greg

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