I think one of the main issues here is that people hate email. I'm not sure how to solve this, but it is desperately in need of a solution.
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:35 AM Allan Odgaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 May 2020, at 17:51, Rémi Lapeyre wrote: > > > A bug tracker (which can be used in foss, even when using cgit) would > > give the answer immediately and I wouldn’t be afraid that those > > patches will be forgotten and stay forever in the mailing list archive > > without being ever committed. > > Many bug trackers are just databases of hundreds if not thousands of > issues with a lot of “+1” or “bump” comments. > > The big advantage of a mailing list compared to a bug tracker is that > many users with an interest in the software will subscribe to the > mailing list, and here they will often reply to messages from other > users with “issues”, even review and comment on pull requests > (several patches sent to this list has gone through revisions based on > input from other subscribers, with no interaction from Jason). > > There is very few people who would subscribe to a pass bug tracker and > help out users, or do impromptu reviews of pull requests. > > So this list decrease the amount of work Jason has to do (responding to > users), and it ensures that patches are put in front of more eyeballs, > which is especially good with pass supporting platforms that Jason do > not himself use (AFAIK). > > Unfortunately though Jason is not the best at acknowledging patches, it > does seem like we do lose some patches, though maybe he is just busy and > he does flag all emails with patches, and a bug tracker wouldn’t > necessarily solve anything: I submitted a patch for WebKit 7 years ago > (fixing a bug), bumped it 4 years ago, and that issue is still open.
