I think this is a good idea too. It would help William and others compile statistics about how Sage is helping/interacting with other projects in the open course math software community.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > It's clear that Sage, unlike most other projects, makes extensive use of > software not written by Sage developers. As such, when bugs are found in that > software, they should ideally be reported upstream. > > I would suggest a pull-down on the track where one could select from > > 1) N/A - Not an upstream bug. > 2) Not yet reported upstream, but should be. > 3) Reported upstream. > 4) Fixed upstream > > In case #2, the reason for it not being reported should be given in the trac > ticket, such as: > > * I will do it within the next week. > * I don't have a clue who to report this too. > > In the case of #3, the trac ticket should give further details of how the bug > was reported. Such as > > * URL for an online bug database > * Email of individual developer mailed. > * Email address of upstream developer list, and URL to join. > * Whether the bug has been acknowledged by the developers. > > In case #4, the trac ticket should state if the fix is in > > * A stable upstream release > * CVS > * Alpha/beta release > > or however else the bug is known about. > > Implementing this (or something similar) would have several advantages. > > 1) It would encourage developers to report bugs upstream in the first place, > as > nobody would like to leave their ticket as "#2 - Not yet reported upstream, > but > should be." > > 2) It would allow a search of those that should be reported. > > 3) It would allow one to search for .spkg files where updating the version > should solve the issue. > > It seems to me, a lot of bugs reported in Sage trac tickets never actually get > reported upstream. This might help in that matter. > > Comments ?? > > Dave > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
