Hi, What is the bug tracker system used by Illumos: https://www.illumos.org/issues ?
it is - not user friendly - doesn't have dark mode - not markdown friendly - options to do simple things are not intuitive such as adding comments and so on.. folks are supporting this tooling, what did you like about it? On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM Jorge Schrauwen via illumos-developer < develo...@lists.illumos.org> wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2025, at 00:12, Joshua M. Clulow via illumos-developer < > develo...@lists.illumos.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 14:56, Atiq Rahman <ati...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks to both of you. > > > > You're welcome! > > > >> May I suggest we move https://www.illumos.org/projects to Github or > GitLab? > >> Old tools look daunting and will essentially alienate new contributors. > Potential contributors are mostly using Github/Gitlab IMO. > > > > It has certainly been considered in the past, but it really isn't > > clear that merely changing to a different bug tracker or code review > > system is going to result in a significant wave of serious new > > contributions. > > Not that I have contributed much, I did go through the whole flow for a > pam feature I wanted and personally I found gerrit to be a nice tool for > the whole review and feedback cycle. > > I even tried to get some of at $work to look at it as I found it better > than github’s flow. > > I’m not sure switching tooling here would help much. > > > > > The hurdle we actually have is that working on an operating system is > > itself often daunting. It's a large code base that has been around > > for a long time. It's not the kind of software that most people work > > on. There is a sort of implicit assumption, I guess, that it's going > > to be very difficult instead of merely a different kind of work. This > > isn't actually the case, of course: the kernel is just a big C > > program! Anybody can learn enough to contribute, if they're > > motivated. > > > > I think if you're already keen to contribute, it's unlikely, on > > balance, that the bug tracker is going to be the reason that you > > don't. > > > > Cheers. > > > > -- > > Joshua M. Clulow > > http://blog.sysmgr.org > > Regards > > Jorge > ------------------------------------------ > illumos: illumos-developer > Permalink: > https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T26d06cb8c35d3fa1-M9082956f7fb9035704ce94e1 > Delivery options: > https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription >
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