A few thoughts concerning the bug tracker and its relative popularity/unpopularity:
I always got the impression from people I spoke with that it was not always obvious where the bug tracker resided. I have to admit that it took a long time before I realized that "Bug Crunch" == "bug tracking and reporting". I'm sure that has tended to depress the number of submitted bugs (not to mention the "must login to submit requirement", which not all trackers have.)
I've always been a fan of Mantis and JIRA and less so of TRAC and Bugzilla.
Bill
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Martin [iso-8859-1] B�hr wrote:
at least two people set up an alternative tracker. but neither picked up any traction (pun intended) even the current bug tracker is not really used as much as it could be.
i doubt a different tracker will make much of a difference here because at least reporting bugs should be equally complex in most of them.
(sign up, find related issues, write description of the problem, etc...)
greetings, martin.
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