Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Internet utilities <bug-inetutils@gnu.org> writes:
> 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. Agreed, I think an e-mail-only issue tracking system is hard to go back to these days, although not impossible. >> 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. True. The savannah issue tracker? I'm using it, but I find the availability issues with savannah together with the really dated UX and technical design (is it possible to export savannah issues in any standardized format?) is making me consider alternatives. I would prefer to leave the centralized software hosting world. Forgejo/codeberg definitely isn't their yet. But I see using it as one likely way forward to get to a decentralized approach. I'm hoping there will be some way to setup another instance of forgejo (by the FSF?) that could perform two-way syncing between other instances. I think this is more likely to materialize than for gitlab, github or savannah. /Simon
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