At 12:24 09/07/2003 +0200, you wrote:

Hi, the pdfTeX project needs a system for tracking bugs, patches and feature requests (whenever I integrate all the latest patches and look for open bugs I fear I forget one).

We could of course set up the needed software by ourself, but there are already places that offer the needed services. I did a quick survey: - Sourceforge (http://sf.net): - Tracker for bugs, support requests, patches, feature requests - Limited to OSI-compatible software (which pdfTeX is) - Savannah (savannah.nongnu.org): - Tracker for bugs, support requests, patches - Limited to GPL-compatible software (which pdfTeX is) - Emphasises on freeness - Berlios (berlios.de): - Tracker for bugs, support requests, patches - Not limited to OSI-compatible software (which pdfTeX is) - It seems you can't automatically get mail about new bugs/patches - Management is german

It seems Sourceforge is offering the most with the least strings attached.

I propose we set up pdfTeX at Sourceforge in the near future (post-Hawaii) for project management but keep the sources in the p4 repository at DANTE/TeXlive (it works perfectly).

Comments?

maybe we schould discuss this at the next dante meeting; if i remember right Thomas Koch has been talking to Berlios people already about setting up something for tex projects, so we should investigate that option in mode detail, i.e. pdftex can then be the first project there Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:24:04PM +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote:

the pdfTeX project needs a system for tracking bugs, patches and feature requests (whenever I integrate all the latest patches and look for open bugs I fear I forget one).

Very good idea. Also there is then one place for patches, information about development, ... and these are not distributed about a lot of mailing lists, newsgroups, ...

We could of course set up the needed software by ourself, but there are already places that offer the needed services. I did a quick survey: - Sourceforge (http://sf.net): [...] - Savannah (savannah.nongnu.org): [...] - Berlios (berlios.de): [...]

pdftex.def is already hosted there.

- It seems you can't automatically get mail about new bugs/patches

Also I have not found an automatic solution that only needs to be enabled. Perhaps a cronjob can be generated there that mails differences of the project summary page, if there are any.

- Management is german

An advantage ;-) Yours sincerely Heiko --