[Gvsig_english] GvSIG 1251

[Manuel Madrid]

Dear Wolfgang.

Let me explain the situation.

Well, we could distinguish between two kind of contributors: general and 
advanced. We think bugtracker is appropriate only for advanced ones, 
since is not too easy to fill in a ticket. You must know and follow some 
instructions in order to get a valid report. Obviously most of the users 
wouldn't report an error if this is the only way and that's why the 
"official" way to report errors is the email list (the easiest way). 
Nevertheless, if somebody is interested in reporting errors directly in 
the bugtracker, we'll be very glad to create an account and give him/her 
the instructions to fill in tickets. He/she only has to ask us for it. 
Anyway, you're right. This is not visible in the web now.

Our aim is that everyone can access bugtracker data (queries like fixed 
bugs, current bugs, etc.) but only advanced contributors can fill in 
tickets.

We're now preparing a report form that (we think) will be the optimum 
way for reporting errors. It will be available in the web. It will be 
very simple to fill in and it will be connected to the bugtracker so the 
report will go into the database directly. Apart from that, we'll 
improve the queries so users can look for errors easily. We'll introduce 
this changes little by little.

Regarding the language, this is a big problem. At the moment the most of 
the testers speaks spanish. That's because the most of the error tickets 
are in spanish. We try to introduce english more and more in the 
project, translating more and more things to english but our first 
language is still spanish. So far the filosophy is to accept tickets in 
both english and spanish and when we find a ticket in english we answer 
in english too. We try to translate all the web to english but, as you 
said, we still have spanish texts. Sorry. I know everything will be much 
more easy for english speakers contributors if we only use english.

Best regards,
Manuel.


Wolfgang Qual escribió:
> Dear Manuel,
> you are right. But I fear that the bugtracker is not that known. Is it 
> possible for everyone to access that tracker? I fear that this is not 
> the case.
> I guess that many users are only interested in watching "what is 
> currently done" or "what bug was just resolved". Some users really would 
> like to contribute to the bugtracker.
> And some may follow. But then, the tracker should be more visible. For 
> example, qgis places "BUGS" very clearly on its homepage. I like this.
> I know that you all are very busy at the moment with all that 
> stabilization and developing of 2.0/1.9 and you are not able to do 
> everything. But it would be great,
> if this could be improved. For example, on the project website [1], 
> there is a headline "bugs corregidos en esta version" - this is nice, 
> but this information is mostly in Spanish and it is not
> clear to which version those bugs belong to.
> For the moment, I would be very happy, if you could tell us, how users 
> can become bug-trackers. Sounds like ghost busters. Bug busters!
> 
> [1] http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/devel/gvsig
> 
> All the best.
> Wolfgang
> 
> 
> 
> Manuel Madrid schrieb:
>> Thanks a lot for your words, Ben.
>> This encourages us to keep on working and improving.
>>
>> And thank you very much, above all, for your testing task. Without any 
>> doubt, your participation on testing and reporting errors in the 
>> bugtracking is helping us to get a robust 1.9. You're a very good 
>> example of tester-contributor. I hope this encourages other users to do 
>> the same.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Manuel.
>>
>>
>> Benjamin Ducke escribió:
>>   
>>> Dear developers
>>>
>>> I am just writing to let you know how 
>>> impressed I am with the latest build of gvSIG.
>>> It feels significantly more smooth and robust than 1.1.2
>>> and I cannot think of many significant missing
>>> features. There still are bugs, of course, but they
>>> are more and more cosmetics; it is getting hard to find
>>> anything critical.
>>>
>>> Two or three years ago, when being asked for a functional
>>> open source alternative to expensive closed source desktop
>>> GIS, I would be unsure what to answer. Now it seems
>>> so obvious.
>>>
>>> I am looking forward to deploying gvSIG 1.9 on many desktops
>>> at our company, in research institutions and homes.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your hard work,
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ===
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>>>
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> 
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-- 
Manuel Madrid.
Proyecto gvSIG (http://www.gvsig.gva.es)
Asistencia Técnica Externa.
Conselleria d'Infraestructures i Transport.
Generalitat Valenciana.
Valencia (Spain).

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