From: "James R Miller" <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: issue tracker?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 18:22:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bc12cfc-b55c-429e-8e50-59769fb51023@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ra1h8d$2ij$1@ciao.gmane.io>
> This idea that the tools used by a potential contributor are inadequate
> misses the point. If the intention is to keep a project going, or better
> yet increase the number of contributors, tools have to be used that will
> be convenient and familiar to those thinking about contributing.
>
> For better or worse, the workflows embodied by Github and Gitlab are
> familiar to the current generation of potential contributors upon which
> sustaining a project will depend.
>
> Holding up the 'Linux uses email for development and thus any project
> doing similar is right' fails to recognize the peculiar nature of the
> Linux kernel (and its developers) and neglects the thousands of projects
> that have increased their visibility and participation by using tools
> such as Github. I agree that Github/Gitlab may not be the best choice
> owing to their stance or implementation related to software freedom, but
> an honest discussion of alternatives seems prudent.
This is the point I am trying to (un-eloquently) make. I'm seeing a bunch of
younger coders interested in emacs (mostly spacemacs and doom); but,
they get frustrated with the ancient (to them) dev practices. I'm not
advocating any rash decisions; simply, whether the project would benefit
from incorporating some sort of simple issue tracker, so that new
contributors could readily see open tasks / issues / submit bug reports.
My biggest issue with a ML only approach is that it's not easy to see what's
an open issue unless you spend a long time searching and reading the ML.
And I feel that that time could be better spent learning the code base
instead of reading the ML.
--
James Miller
james.ryland.miller@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-19 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-18 21:24 issue tracker? Anthony Carrico
2020-05-18 22:21 ` Nick Dokos
2020-05-18 23:13 ` James R Miller
2020-05-19 7:33 ` tomas
2020-05-19 14:02 ` James R Miller
2020-05-19 14:05 ` James R Miller
2020-05-19 14:53 ` tomas
2020-05-19 14:58 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2020-05-19 16:45 ` Timothy
2020-05-19 16:57 ` Russell Adams
2020-05-19 17:03 ` Timothy
2020-05-19 17:29 ` Russell Adams
2020-05-19 18:50 ` James R Miller
2020-05-19 19:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-19 20:17 ` Roland Everaert
2020-05-19 20:47 ` Diego Zamboni
2020-05-19 21:28 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-19 19:48 ` Russell Adams
2020-05-19 20:14 ` Trey Ethan Harris
2020-05-19 20:57 ` gyro funch
2020-05-19 23:22 ` James R Miller [this message]
2020-05-20 9:22 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-05-20 9:40 ` Detlef Steuer
2020-05-20 11:12 ` Stefan Nobis
2020-05-20 16:41 ` Jud Taylor
2020-05-20 18:55 ` gennady.uraltsev
2020-05-20 22:05 ` Bob Newell
2020-05-21 8:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-05-21 11:21 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2020-05-21 14:46 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-21 16:31 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-22 8:17 ` Roland Everaert
2020-05-22 14:53 ` Anthony Carrico
2020-05-23 12:57 ` Roland Everaert
2020-05-23 13:14 ` Russell Adams
2020-05-25 11:20 ` Roland Everaert
2020-05-26 12:34 ` Robert Pluim
2020-06-01 14:40 ` Bastien
2020-06-01 14:36 ` Bastien
2020-05-26 19:17 ` Matthew Lundin
2020-06-01 14:43 ` Bastien
2020-05-27 17:59 ` Mario Frasca
2020-05-27 18:12 ` Russell Adams
2020-05-27 18:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-31 8:49 ` Russell Adams
2020-06-01 14:45 ` Bastien
2020-06-01 15:46 ` Mario Frasca
2020-06-01 15:53 ` Bastien
2020-06-01 16:28 ` Mario Frasca
2020-06-01 16:54 ` Russell Adams
2020-06-02 11:57 ` Bastien
2020-06-05 22:44 ` Mario Frasca
2020-06-06 7:57 ` Bastien
2020-06-06 16:15 ` Mario Frasca
2020-06-07 9:38 ` Bastien
2020-06-07 13:50 ` Mario Frasca
2020-06-08 9:11 ` Bastien
2020-05-21 2:35 ` Anthony Carrico
2020-05-21 3:12 ` James R Miller
2020-05-21 5:33 ` Russell Adams
2020-05-21 7:31 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-21 14:18 ` Anthony Carrico
2020-05-21 14:38 ` tomas
2020-05-21 14:38 ` Anthony Carrico
2020-05-21 15:05 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-22 16:56 ` Ken Mankoff
2020-05-26 19:36 ` Matthew Lundin
2020-06-01 14:59 ` Bastien
2020-09-14 5:23 ` Bastien
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-02 11:38 Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-06-02 11:55 ` Bastien
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