Re: Bug tracking (was Re: +/- Inf for float8's)

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Don Baccus wrote:

> At 10:48 AM 8/21/00 -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> 
> >Could it be possible that folks are shying away because of having
> >to install and learn an entire webserver and tools and then the 
> >bug tracker on top of that?
> 
> Learning to use AOLserver is going to be harder than writing a
> bugtracker and associated tools from scratch?  I find that hard to
> believe.  

Learning how to use it is only a tiny part of it.  You still have to
migrate your website to it.   It's not a drop in replacement.  So
writing a bugtracker that will fit the environment vs learning a new
webserver & migrating your website & rebuilding or rewriting custom 
apps ...   For the average, busy admin, don't count too heavily on
the latter.   They're more likely to stick with what they know and
trust regardless of how good something else is reported to be.

> If it's true, of course they could run Apache, since arsDigita
> provides a module which implements the AOLserver API in Apache
> for exactly this reason, thus making it possible to run the
> toolkit (including the SDM) under Apache.

First I heard of this, but I'd also have concerns of it's reliability.
It has to be real new.   And if it fails it's not ars that looks bad,
it's the site that's running it.  Remember the flack over udmsearch?
PostgreSQL was slammed over and over because udmsearch wasn't working
right.  

Vince.
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