Re: Gnats

["Daniel Berlin" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> > In related news, who thinks we should bite the bullet and migrate to
>  > the sourceware bugzilla installation?
>
>  Perhaps I don't use the current bugs database enough to see the problems
>  that come with it. But I think whether the switch will be useful or not
>  depends on how much resources we would have available to monitor the
>  contents of the database. Right now, it feel like very little effort is
>  spent using the current bugs database, and so a switch wouldn't bring
>  much benefit.

FWIW, the exact same thing was true with GCC when it was using GNATS.
No GCC dev's used it or paid attention, etc.
Within 2 months of the switch, there were even dedicated people
monitoring the database that came out of the woodwork (andrew pinski,
for example), and developers were using it.
It turns out if you have tools that suck, people don't use them :)