"BV" == Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
Me> It'd actually be cooler to use meta.w.o to track bugs.
BV> Tracking bugs on wiki pages is terribly difficult too, BV> unfortunately; that's why we started using the BV> tracker. Reports get left, then we ask for more information, BV> and the original poster never comes back to check.
I wonder if the advantages we get out of wiki for producing other content would come into play here. A report gets left, and then somebody else cleans up the report into a preferred format. Someone else gives more specific information, and someone else assigns the bug to a person ("Assigned to: [[User:Evan]]").
Bugs that get reported and not followed up on fall to the bottom of the stack, or go on [[m:Unverified bug reports]] or something.
The thing is that we deal with most problems with Wikipedia (and the other wikis) on-wiki, but we try to separate one part of it -- software problems -- elsewhere. And, y'know, the place we chose to do that is far off-site, and it's slow and has a crummy interface.
~ESP