Re: Fossil updates & github copy

[Maurizio Boriani <baux80%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 28 July 2011 at 16:37, David Holland 
<dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:31:18PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > > may be nice and useful import the bugtracker in fossil too, what do
>  > > you think about?
>  > 
>  > I don't plan to. Getting the GNATS database into a form that allows
>  > proper processing is a lot work and I don't think it is too useful at
>  > this point.

> It's also a completely different problem and I don't see that
> importing it into an SCM tool is useful.

With respect, I don't agree. I think (the author of fossil too[1]) that bug
track is a foundamental part of a project so is natural to have source code
and bug track in the same tool. It isn't only natural but useful too, for 
example, in off-line work to have a copy of source code, internal documents
and bug track, eventually synced back when back on-line.

It's a lot of work, true, but it's a lot of work change scm from cvs vs. 
fossil|git|whatever. Why not rethink bug tracking too, while doing this 
revision?

thanks,

bye

[1]. http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/pop.wiki