[GenABEL-dev] dealing with suggestions on the devel-list

[Yurii Aulchenko]

Dear Diego,

many thanks for your suggestions! Here are some comments:

> ... steps suggested by Yurii seem reasonable to me. Which has been the approach so far? Did you already have a bug-tracker? Was the approach successful? If it used to work, I guess there is no need to change it.
>

We do have a bug tracker at

https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?group_id=505

but only committers can file bugs in. Up until now, mostly Lennart and
me filled these in. Bug reports came from users reporting directly to
me (pre-forum & pre genabel-devel list era), or through the
genabel-devel mailing list, or through the forum (forum.genabel.org).
Reporting through forum actually worked quite fantastically, see
example

http://forum.genabel.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4#p17

So, this procedure of filing the bugs and feature requests (now mostly
through forum) is in place, and it works for now.

Now we start getting suggestions on 'how to fix a bug' and in writing
my e-mail, I was aiming to discuss how we deal with this anticipated
situation, and set our guidelines through the discussion.

> ...  the way to deal with them probably depends on the number of users/reports you get. If the estimated number of reports is low probably it is possible to handle them in the mailing list, but when the number increases maybe dealing with them through the mailing list may become unmanageable.
>

This is very good point, and it is also highlights a very important
question that number of mailings in the genabel-devel list may get too
high, too soon. Bug reports, feature suggestions, suggestions on how
to fix a bug, patches; and also we intend to have some methodology
discussion! I am going to rise the question how we deal with that in
my next e-mail(s).

Thanks again for sharing your ideas,
Yurii