Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

[Walter Bright]

On 8/1/2013 10:58 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> I've to admit I don't understand that sentiment at all. It's just
>> bugzilla, one of the many bug tracking systems out there. You run into a
>> problem, you post a bug, describe the problem, show the code, show the
>> results, explain what you expected to see, etc., and the devs set tags
>> on it to indicate what kind of problem it is, give feedback, discuss the
>> issue with you, and then post an update when the problem has been
>> addressed. I don't see what's so unwieldy about it -- that's what you
>> basically have to do to resolve an issue!

Bugzilla is infinitely better than what we were doing before. After using 
bugzilla for years now, I don't really have any complaints about it. It does the 
job with a minimum of fuss.


> I used to be put off by using bugzilla as it seemed complicated. Then I used it
> once and found it ridiculously simple. (Although I still don't know whether P1
> is more urgent than P5)

It also seems redundant with the critical/major/normal setting.