Re: issue tracker?

[Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>]

If you don't mind me adding 2 more cents :P I don't think that email
should be given up in favour of a web client, or that it isn't better in
many ways.

However, if it were possible to have the best of both worlds, is there a
reason why we'd say no? Just taking a guess here, but I imagine it
should be possible to sync up a public issue tracker to the mailing list.

I may have missed something, or be barking up the wrong tree, but those
are my current thoughts :)

On May 20 2020, at 12:57 am, Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote:

> I can't help but chime in here. Using email for project management, patches,
> testing, etc is not difficult or unusual.
>  
> In fact, the Linux kernel uses email for this purpose. They have a
> variety of
> reasons which were recently covered in some articles. Clearly their
> code base
> and number of developers is overwhelmingly larger than Org, so we must
> be doing
> something right.
>  
> https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/
>  
> https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2016/talks/patches-carved-into-stone-tablets/
>  
> My personal opinion is I'd always prefer to use my mail client over some
> website. I've personally chosen what I think is the best mail client,
> where I
> can easily sort and read mail from mailing lists. It has a fast
> interface, easy
> to read, and is incredibly consistent (yay Mutt!). I can also rapidly
> edit (in
> Emacs!) my replies. I can send an email in a matter of keystrokes, blindly
> typing.
>  
> Compare that to most websites where I have to wait forever for all the crap
> javascript to load, forfeit my privacy to all the trackers and
> cookies, and then
> manage to figure out how their site works. Once done I'm thrown into a
> significantly inferior editor box to try and type or paste information
> in. From
> that point, I can only use their website to manage my submission.
>  
> The irony that these websites will often notify me *by email* that
> something has
> occurred.
>  
> I clearly don't agree that adding a website somehow makes issue
> tracking or
> patch submission magically easier to manage or submit bug information compared
> to email.
>  
> If you have feedback, please don't hesitate to just send an email to
> the list
> with your questions or comments. This is easily one of my favorite
> lists and
> very welcoming even to controversial opinions.
>  
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>> Regardless, doing issue tracking, discussion, and patch submission on
>> a ML
>> in 2020 is pretty odd and inefficient.
>>  
>> I would have submitted feedback here 6-12 months earlier than I did
>> if org
>> had a proper issue tracker.
>>  
>> On Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:35 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>>  
>> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 06:13:38PM -0500, James R Miller wrote:
>> > > Doesn’t Gogs have a nice issue tracker functionality?
>> >
>> > I looked up Gogs. Needs javascript *and* cookies. Wake me up when
>> > there's a plain, straight service which works without any of them.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > -- t
>> >
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