FreeCS Mailing Lists are a thing now.
I urge you to use these instead.
Discussion goes here:
freecs-1-5-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Bugs go here:
freecs-1-5-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
I'm not trying to be a contrarian, I've got good reasons for dumping the issue
tracker:
1) No one likes logging onto SourceForge.
2) People should never have to make an account somewhere to file bugs.
3) Mail is probably the sanest communication protocol for the task, as it is
widely available and I can read it without logging onto some broken site.
4) Collecting notes on a bug/issue tracker doesn't have much advantage over
lists. They create more work.
The last point might be considered controversial, but I urge you to think about
all the times you've spent a day working off bugs on a bug tracker.
This never seems to happen. Issues pile up and you get a GNOME/Firefox scenario
where their tracker has bugs dating back to the early 2000s.
No one knows if they still apply, a lot of them do but no one could and ever
will be bothered to go back and check them all. They just waste space in one
big database that needs moderators/non-devs to make sure duplicate issues
are 'merged' with ones from the past. Yuck.
Yes, smaller projects can have one really dedicated developer going through
TODO, FIXME and HACK comments, as well as their ticket tracker if they have one,
but this doesn't scale at all. If you get 20 tickets a day, when will you be
able to work these off AND innovate on functionality?
Closing issues, marking things as duplicate etc. creates more work.
Mailing lists don't have that problem... as they are just simply mail.
Duplicate issues will massage your memory and maybe urge you to finally act
upon them instead of just merging and ignoring them.
In conclusion:
The ticketing system is dead for good. It won't be coming back - if you made
an account on SourceForge just to file a FreeCS bug, feel free to delete it.
We all need to cut down on the amount of accounts we've registered on this
World Wide Web anyway.
To all of whom think of bug trackers as a success story, I'd like to hear
about it! They never worked for me and seemingly many other projects as well
as mailing lists. I'm really trying to be objective here.
-- Marco