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

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> why not just run aolserver on a different port like we do?

If it has the functionality you desire and are looking for, sure.  My
contention is that the average site isn't going to do it for a couple
of features and would roll their own instead.

Vince.
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