[Python-Dev] New bugtracker project

[David Ascher]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>Can you elaborate what the differences are?  Other than smaller fonts and
>pink backgrounds I didn't notice any functional difference between the two
>pages.  In particular, they both seemed to have several columns of
>information which could be used to sort the display in ascending or
>descending order.  (I use Opera.  Maybe some other tidbits are available to
>people using Netscape or MSIE.)
>
The choice of default columns and the font choices and the coloring make 
a big difference in how much information fits on a screen.  It's minor 
stuff, but it makes big usability differences.

>My biggest gripe with bugzilla has always been the damn search form.  Talk
>about an inefficient UI!  If I need to submit a bug report to a
>bugzilla-based system I refuse to even try to see if the bug has been
>reported before.
>
Try ActiveState's -- we have a "simple search" form which does the right 
thing in 95% of bugs for any bug database with less than 50,000 bugs in 
it =).

http://bugs.activestate.com/ActivePerl/query.cgi

--da