This debate should apply to sword in general as we need a good bug tracker there.
Another one to throw in is roundup which looks like it has a good email interface as well as the webgui http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Daniel On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:38, Mark Goodwin wrote: > Well, my quick play ended up being not so quick. > > I got it working.. kinda... > > I spent a couple of minutes looking into invoking PHP via a CGI > wrapper before I noticed that there is support for invoking PHP from a > servlet. Perfect, I thought. > > I managed to build a version of PHP4 with servlet API support, and got > a Tomcat instance up and running PHP. Then I got PHP talking away > happily to PostgreSQL, and got phpbt running happily over the top. > Saw enough to think it looks like a nice system. > > Unfortunately, this is were things went a bit wrong. Turns out the > servlet support in PHP4 is experimental and is no longer supported > (joy of joys). After a few requests, PHP dies and brings the entire > servlet container down with it. > > Note to all you free software developers out there; If your product > has some fancy feature thats experimental, broken and unsupported, it > might be nice to document the fact somewhere. > > So, I'm back to wondering about invoking PHP from CGIs... > > I may have another look late next week. I'll see how I'm doing for spare time. > > Failing that, it's back to Scarab. > > MarkG > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:40:04 +0100, Mark Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm. > > > > The little light in my head goes on, and I remember the cgi-servlet in tomcat... > > > > I'll have a quick play. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:37:55 +0000, Davy Mitchell > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Another option may be phpBugTracker > > > http://www.latedecember.com/hosted/phpbt/ > > > > > > I am using it for the live CD project and it is very easy to set up and has > > > plenty of features. It was created as a reaction to some of the > > > overcomplicated 'solutions'. > > > > > > Peace, > > > Davy On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 21:00, Eric Galluzzo wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 04:02, Joe Walker wrote: > > I think we need a better bug tracker than bugs.txt, because I bet my > > edits will crash with yours, and because leading up to 1.0 it will > > become important that we can prioritize our work. > > > > Options I can think of: > > - Install bugzilla at crosswire > > - Install scarab at crosswire > > - Install jira at crosswire (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/) > > - Use the bugzilla that we have at sourceforge There are 3 SF projects > > that we have, ProjectB, J-Sword (not set up by me, not even sure if > > I'm an admin) and BibleDesktop (unused other that to book the name) > > - Try to get an account at tigris.org or java.net to use their > > instance of Scarab. > > - Find someone willing to host Jira for us. > > > > My experience of buzilla/scarab/jira is between small and > > non-existent. I've setup bugzilla and scarab at work. Bugzilla is easy > > on Linux, Scarab is somewhat harder. > > > > The Scarab UI is probably better than the Buzilla one, and from the > > Jira demo, it is way ahead of both of them. > > We've used both Bugzilla and Scarab, and we now use Jira (for some > open-source projects that our company has created). Bugzilla's default > UI is bad (although it can be made prettier -- see, e.g. > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/), and it's not Java-friendly (and thus kinda > hard to install). Scarab has bad "social" problems -- e.g. it's been in > "beta" for ages, and while new features are added pretty frequently, the > developers refuse to fix obvious bugs and shortcomings ("yes, we know > that's been there for two years -- we don't care, you fix it!") and > routinely flame other developers and users. > > Jira is free to open-source projects, and has a nice UI. Also, the > developers seem to be pretty friendly. It's pure Java, so is very easy > to set up (just a war file); the configuration is pretty easy too. > > - Eric _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
