On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:32 PM Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I see little reason not to allow both ways of reporting bugs. > It seems that the need to create an account in FB to even view/search > issues has been a big barrier to new(er) would-be contributors. I expect > this difficulty would be multiplied since, in the process of reporting a > bug on GH, they would not be able to easily determine if it had already > been opened on FB Tons of issues are reported in GH that are closed minutes as the issue they report does not even exist. Closing an issue is just a matter of pressing a button and you can always redirect the user to the issue in FB. Frankly I am no fan of FB, I find Github interface less powerful but far simpler and better designed. What annoyed me is that fogbuz did not even subscribed me to my own issues (issues I created) . I did not go back because I thought people ignored me , then one day I decided to create a new bug report and found out that people have replied almost immediately to my old ones. Then I realised that Fogbuz did not alert me through email , then I dig up its settings and found the way enable email alerts. Suffice to say I was not very happy with this. I prefer GH also because I have already been using it with Python way before I was introduced into Pharo, so its not just newcomer who will prefer GH , I think the vast majority of people coming from other languages will do too. GH is almost a monopoly at this point. Pretty much every one says moving to git and github will be costly , like Stef just did. Blender made the move I think a year ago, so much noise in the mailing list whether its really worth it moving from svn to git more than 1 million line of code and more than a decade of commits. Later admitted it was far easier than they expected. Point is that people are lazy, we are just are, and we like to keep doing things we are familiar with because learning is hard. Problem is not learning is far more costly. I have been a defender of git and github in the pharo mailing lists for years now even though many resisted me and tried to convince me how Pharo and git will never properly work and here we are, not regretting a second of it and I am sure that other people who were supportive too dont either. But I never forced my opinion on anyone and I wont now. I am just saying , if I have the choice between github and fogbuz, for me its github all the way. Likewise if its iceberger vs gitup , gitup all the way. On the other hand , its great to live in a time having so many choices ;)
