I also wonder when they measure the popularity of a language/community whether GitHub issues is a measure (I suspect it is), so it may be advantageous to show activity particularly for a smaller community.
Like others, I'm not a big fan of fogbugz (never understood why Joel is considered a god), but it's ok, and it's served its purpose. I'd seriously switching. I Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 19 Aug 2017, at 21:40, Dimitris Chloupis <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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 ;)
