Re: Cygwin bug tracking is non-existent

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

2010/6/28 William Blunn:
> Cygwin does not appear to have a bug tracker.
>
> That being the case:
>
> How do we keep all information about a bug together in one referenceable
> place?

You did the right thing. You reported the bug to cygwin@cygwin.com
which is tracked by email and by an archive on the webpage.
See http://cygwin.com/problems.html

> How do we keep a bug around and tracked through to completion?

By email.

> i.e. How do we do the things that every other project uses a bug tracker
> for?
>
> Seems like every open source project has a bug tracker.

Not really. postgresql i.e uses the same type of bug tracking.

> The various open source foundries seem to provide that as standard.
>
> But no bug tracker for Cygwin.

Sending email to cygwin at cygwin.com IS the right bug tracking method.
The archives are online at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/
Response is immediate.

> Consider this a bug report against the Cygwin project.

Looks like an invalid report.

> I'd report it as a bug on the bug tracker, but we appear to have a catch-22
> / bootstrapping problem...
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