Bug deadlines (or bug 103636)

[Christopher Hicks]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Gervase Markham wrote:
> Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>>       For bug-tracking software, knowing if you're on-schedule or late
>>       is arguably an essential feature, and most non-OSS-centric sites
>>       that use Bugzilla could really appreciate this.
>
> No, it's an essential feature for a project management tool. :-)

It's also an essential feature of a task management tool.  I agree with 
Christian's appraisal of this.

> We've been of the view in the past that we don't want Bugzilla to turn into 
> one of those.

We're not talking about having it generate PERT charts.  What else don't 
you want to be doing that a project management tool does?

> The initial time tracking implementation (as I said at the 
> time) was the start of a slippery slope. This is the next step.

What if we define what the next steps on that slope are, figure out how 
far down that slope people are willing to go, and then say "beyond this 
point its time to make an interface between bugzilla and some project 
management tool".

> Given that we have time tracking, it does seem sensible to have a 
> deadline field. But that's how a slippery slope works :-)

I'm really not seeing what the fear here is.

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</chris>