On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 04:25:17PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 09:18:59AM -0500, Jason Stewart via Mutt-dev wrote: > > Getting the > > suggestions and complaints from others may reveal that one's original > > plan was either mistaken or incomplete, and points the way toward a > > better solution. > > > the same can happen in the issue itself.
The difference is it doesn't add to the pile of work that some poor maintainer already has to spend the time to triage the ticket. Mutt has basically been on life support because there was no one with both the inclination and the time to spend wading through the submitted patches, never mind the tedium of cleaning up the bug tracker. There are still plenty of interested parties on the dev list, and there's no reason those discussions need to add busywork to a volunteer's plate. > > With things like github, people subscribe to a pet peeve, and > > ignore everything else. That selects for people who are fixated > > on one thing, but do not give a shit about anything > > else--including other users. Someone who stays subscribed to the > > mailing list has to at least glance through all discussions--even > > ones regarding features they don't care about. That means a) they > > care enough to devote that much sustained attention to mutt, and > > b) they have some context for on-going development ( > > strengths, weaknesses, bugs, history, goals, etc). > > > you seem a tad optimistic about how people interact with lists. FWIW, Jason's description more or less matches my (rather lengthy) esperience. Or, more precisely, there will be those who subscribe for a specific reason, and leave when they are done with it; meanwhile long-term subscribers will be those with a genuine interest in the project/topic/whatever. In my experience, bug trackers tend to be a lot less interactive, because they are task-oriented, not discussion-oriented. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
