Hugs back to you bud. I'll point you to the proliferation of operating systems, IDEs and other devices. Not everyone can be perfect and use a Mac, Eclipse and Maven :)
But I put up with them nonetheless :) Cheers, Chris Sent from my iPhone On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:42 PM, "Justin Erenkrantz" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
