I think one of the main issues here is that people hate email.
That’s a bold statement. I think it does well what it’s supposed to
do. Security defaults could be better but email can be done securely.
I encountered people saying that email “needs to evolve”. We have
Slack, IRC etc that can do a lot and those can be good alternatives for
certain orgs / use cases.
On 22 May 2020, at 3:48, Nathan Lilienthal wrote:
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.
