[Numpy-discussion] Improving bug triage in trac ?

[David Cournapeau]

Hi there,

    I am personnally a bit annoyed by the way trac handle bug reports, 
and would like to know if there is space for improvement. I do not know 
much about bug tracking systems, so maybe I just don't know how to use 
it, though. The main thing I dislike is the status of tickets and 
reports. In particular:
    - I don't know how other feel, but I am rather confused by the meta 
data of a ticket, and do not find them really useful from a developer 
point of view. It would be quite helpful to have information whether the 
bug is confirmed or not, another one which says wether a patch is 
available or not. This would make bug triage much easier, IMHO. This 
should be possible, since I have seen some trac installation with such 
features (wordpad trac, for example).
    - This one maybe a bit more difficult to implement I guess (I don't 
know anything about trac internals): I find the general view of bugs for 
a given repository really helpful in launchpad, in perticular, you can 
easily view the percentage of bugs wrt their status (eg 30 % bugs 
unconfirmed, etc...); see for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/+about. 
This gives a pretty good idea of what needs to be done for a particular 
release.
    How do other people feel about those suggestions ?

    cheers,

    David