Simon Josefsson wrote: > Where to report bugs: > > - I'm not sure it is feasible to reach for perfect consistency on this > without sacrificing end-user convenience to report bugs. A simple > solution is to say that only bug-inetutils@gnu.org is valid.
While a plain mailing list works fine for a package with several active maintainers (like gnulib), it is not adequate (as the only tracker) for packages where a maintainer wants to spend only a few hours per month: Too many issues remain unresolved, and the mailing list does not have markers "open" or "closed" for issues or topics. Additionally, some people don't want their email address to receive spam; therefore a web-based bug tracker works better for them. > I thought about closing down issue tracker on some subset of these > platforms, but I couldn't find convincing arguments one way or the > other. One argument is that reporters can search for already-reported issues and therefore avoid entering a duplicate. This works better if you have only 1 web-based tracker than 3. Another argument is that you yourself probably don't want to use 3 different UIs (savannah, gitlab, codeberg) for doing the same thing. You'll be more efficient if you use only one of them. For this reason, I'm happy with the choice I made with GNU gettext: 1 bug-* mailing list plus 1 web-based tracker. Bruno
