If you don't mind me adding 2 more cents :P I don't think that email should be given up in favour of a web client, or that it isn't better in many ways.
However, if it were possible to have the best of both worlds, is there a reason why we'd say no? Just taking a guess here, but I imagine it should be possible to sync up a public issue tracker to the mailing list. I may have missed something, or be barking up the wrong tree, but those are my current thoughts :) On May 20 2020, at 12:57 am, Russell Adams <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote: > I can't help but chime in here. Using email for project management, patches, > testing, etc is not difficult or unusual. > > In fact, the Linux kernel uses email for this purpose. They have a > variety of > reasons which were recently covered in some articles. Clearly their > code base > and number of developers is overwhelmingly larger than Org, so we must > be doing > something right. > > https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/ > > https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2016/talks/patches-carved-into-stone-tablets/ > > My personal opinion is I'd always prefer to use my mail client over some > website. I've personally chosen what I think is the best mail client, > where I > can easily sort and read mail from mailing lists. It has a fast > interface, easy > to read, and is incredibly consistent (yay Mutt!). I can also rapidly > edit (in > Emacs!) my replies. I can send an email in a matter of keystrokes, blindly > typing. > > Compare that to most websites where I have to wait forever for all the crap > javascript to load, forfeit my privacy to all the trackers and > cookies, and then > manage to figure out how their site works. Once done I'm thrown into a > significantly inferior editor box to try and type or paste information > in. From > that point, I can only use their website to manage my submission. > > The irony that these websites will often notify me *by email* that > something has > occurred. > > I clearly don't agree that adding a website somehow makes issue > tracking or > patch submission magically easier to manage or submit bug information compared > to email. > > If you have feedback, please don't hesitate to just send an email to > the list > with your questions or comments. This is easily one of my favorite > lists and > very welcoming even to controversial opinions. > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >> Regardless, doing issue tracking, discussion, and patch submission on >> a ML >> in 2020 is pretty odd and inefficient. >> >> I would have submitted feedback here 6-12 months earlier than I did >> if org >> had a proper issue tracker. >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2020, 3:35 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 06:13:38PM -0500, James R Miller wrote: >> > > Doesn’t Gogs have a nice issue tracker functionality? >> > >> > I looked up Gogs. Needs javascript *and* cookies. Wake me up when >> > there's a plain, straight service which works without any of them. >> > >> > Cheers >> > -- t >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com > > PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ > > Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 > >