On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah JIRA isn't exactly intended for consuming over email. I usually just > click the links when the email comes so that I can be taken to the real place > that the magic happens: JIRA itself.
That's the crux of my concern - an issue tracker shouldn't be the place that "magic" happens. I shouldn't be forced to follow JIRA to know that you are vetoing something. > Eh, I'm not sure on this one. I think it depends on how you consume the > information from JIRA or a mailing list. A mailing list discussion may be > great if you're on the go, or reading it on your blackberry: easy to reply > to, quickly able to read, that type of thing. However, what if you want to > search it? Or search across a number of them? Google is great for that too, > (as are the mail archives) but there's some extra clicks there that you have > to do to find what's going on. It's also not real time in terms of being able > to search latest issues. Some mail-archive systems are real time, but you > have to leave the context of your reader to go use them (open a browser, > click, click, that type of thing). > ...snip, snip... Perhaps, you might not have understood what I was suggesting. So, I'll point you at Karl Fogel's section from Producing OSS entitled "No Conversations in the Bug Tracker": http://producingoss.com/en/bug-tracker-usage.html As usual, Karl states it far more eloquently than I can. And, *of course*, Karl has an entire section related to exactly this. *hugs* -- justin
