Re: [Bug: 21.5-b27] MH-E: Hangs on "Fontifying inbox"

sjt> [As long as I've got your attention, any well-known sjt> free-as-in-free-beer products you'd like to be submitting bugs to, sjt> or would like to avoid? Ignore what I said about my preferences sjt> for this purpose. :-] Unfortunately, we don't have a decent bug tracking system set up for OpenSolaris yet. So my experience with free BTS's is limited to the few packages I've filed bugs against. I don't have any experience with free BTS's from a code owner point of view. That said, Bugzilla and Roundup seem okay to me. Mercurial uses Roundup, and I haven't seen any complaints on the mercurial mailing list. Mike> But for bugs where it's not immediately obvious what the problem Mike> is, or how to fix it, a bug tracker provides a convenient place to Mike> put all the notes related to the bug.[...] sjt> All true, if developers are actually using the BTS. But if they sjt> are not, the information tends not to collect in one place; it gets sjt> spread across a bunch of uncorrelated bugs. Good point, it does require a certain amount of discipline on the part of bug submitters to see if there's already an open bug. Or one or more people to comb the database, looking for duplicates. mike