[csw-maintainers] Registering packages in mantis (was Re: [csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs firefox_l10n_af, ...)

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:39 AM, William Bonnet <william at wbonnet.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
>> its semi-automated, and not really an extra hassle. This was more a
>> deliberate choice of,
>> "I dont think we'll benefit from registering them in mantis,and
>> there's a slight drawback of the extra clutter if we do put them in".
>>
>
> IMHO benefit will be the same as many other other "samll packages". If they
> are not registered, there will be no way to report problem (that's the
> initial release, and there my be problems). Moreover, it will not be
> possible to ask for update through the bug tracker.
>
> I think we should have a cohrent policy, and register in mantis each and
> every package.

Mantis creates a drop-down select field with all the packages in a
flat list.  Selecting an item from a list of 2280 packages is
annoying.  I agree though that it's good to have every package
registered in the database.  What do we do then?