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Well if we're going to start adding wish list items . . . I would like decent distributed bug tracking such that I could follow a bug from first detection thro

Well if we're going to start adding wish list items . . . I would like decent distributed bug tracking such that I could follow a bug from first detection through branching and merging and forking until fix and then follow the absence of bug through branching and merging and forking. No more centralized bug trackers. Death to Jira!

mwint 4y ago
In a perfect TDD world, you could write a test for the bug and let bisect figure out where the bug first appeared and when it was fixed. Hard to do, but when I was at a big company they had something similar.
masklinn 4y ago
Good luck with that. The idea of a distributed bug tracker was in vogue in the first years of the DVCS rise. The problem is that it doesn’t really make any sense, or at least nobody managed to make it make sense: a bug tracker is a synchronisation point, and a bug is a cross-cutting concern, and one which outlives it’s fix.