On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > The real issue is whether it's really alright with you... Currently, > something that I do and I'm sure others do it to, is keep the bug in my > mailbox with any followup discussions. In some cases the followups contain > enough information so I'll keep only that and not the original. With the > github thing, if you get to deal with a bug several days after it was posted, > it will be a good idea to check the bug since there could have been > clarifications that you're unaware of. > > And since attachments were mentioned: a possible situation is that someone > posts a bug, the bug czar asks for some clarification, and the email reply > has a screenshot which GH ignores. In that case you will need to get that > attachment directly from one of the people. The outcome of this is that it's > better to leave stepper bugs for you to deal with instead, and the "bug czar" > role is minimized to just assigning bugs or maybe not even that and it gets > eliminated. > > To clarify: I'm not arguing against a move because of this -- I think that it > is a good thing overall, including not needed a czar. I just want the > implications to be clear ahead of time.
Okay, many thanks; this makes sense. John > > > > On Friday, March 16, 2012, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, John Clements > > <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote: > >> On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > >> > >> * The bug notification-turned-mailing-list interaction aspect of Gnats > >> is mostly lost. GitHub sends out notifications when a bug is > >> created, but it will *not* send out further comments unless you're > >> participating in the discussion (i.e., you sent a comment on the > >> issue). > >> > >> - This makes for the most major workflow change: instead of relying > >> on your mailbox for all bug-related activity, you *will* need to > >> use the GitHub (web) interface. > >> > >> > >> Can you elaborate on this? I see that I won't automatically receive all > >> e-mails on all bugs, but if that's all right with me, then when will I have > >> to use the web-interface that I don't currently? > > > > Basically never. All of the things you can currently do without using > > the web interface (close bugs, reply to emails about bugs) will still > > be available. The only change is that you'll no longer be included in > > the discussions for bugs that aren't assigned to you and that you > > haven't said anything about. > > -- > > sam th > > sa...@ccs.neu.edu > > > > _________________________ > > Racket Developers list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > > > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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