In article <3bd936bd$1@news.povray.org> , "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk>
wrote:

> a) it would serve as a common reference point for people to check against to
> see if a bug they'd found had already been reported (this group's signal to
> noise ratio can be a problem in that respect)
>
> b) anyone could add to the db, but the understanding would be that they should
> only do so after confirming with this group that they'd found a bug
>
> c) like a) but for the bug-fixers to see which bugs were outstanding
>
> Anyway, I'll go ahead and do it and then the pov-team can take a look and see
> if it looks like a useful resource if no one has any objections? If it's no
> good, the only time wasted is my own....

This is just my own opinion, not speaking for the POV-Team:

The POV-Team already has a non-public* formal bug tracking system and is
aware of outstanding bugs once they find the way into our system (as our
time permits to enter that information there).  I don't think anybody in the
team has the time to look at yet another tracking system and/or keep the
data consistent.  A simple newsgroup message with a list is really
sufficient if it is up to date.  If posted once a week every user should
really be able to read it before posting a bug report.

    Thorsten

* If we would make it public we for sure would get lots of people
second-guessing why one or the other bug isn't fixed.  Further, some bugs
are not related to POV-Ray directly but are internal issues that should be
changed sometime in the near or distant future...

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
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