Re: Add issue management within git

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 12 2018, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 09:35:31AM +0800, yan ke wrote:
>
>> > This would be awesome to handle issue directly with git:
>> > Having an offline version of the issues synced to the gitlab/github issues.
>> > A lot of work is done on the issues and it is lost when migrating
>> > from one service to the other.
>> > Beside we don’t always have a good internet connection.
>> > There is already a kind of integration between commit message fixing
>> > issue automatically when merged in the master branch (with “fix
>> > #143’).
>>    Very very agree, now it is very difficult to find a solution when
>> has some problem such build problem an so on! The mail-list is good to
>> send patch es, but is it not suitable for problem track or problem
>> solution search!
>>    Now the Github or Gitlab is good to track issues, suggest to open
>> the git issue track!
>
> Please don't hijack the discussion: the original poster did not question
> the workflow adopted by the Git project itself but rather asked about
> what is colloquially called "distributed bug tracker", and wanted to
> have one integrated with (or into) Git. That is completely orthogonal
> story.

Correct, but let's assume good faith here and presume yan ke just
misread the original E-mail. Many of us (and perhaps yourself) are
participating in our second, third, fourth etc. language on this list :)

> As to searching for Git issues / problem solutions - I'd recommend using
> the search on the main Git mailing list archive [1] and the issue
> tracker of the Git for Windows project [2].
>
> The communities around Git also include the "Git Users" low-volume
> mailing list [3] (also perfectly searcheable), and the "git" tag at
> StackOverflow [4].
>
> 1. https://public-inbox.org/git/
> 2. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues
> 3. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/git-users
> 4. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/git

Yeah. I'll add to that that this specific thing has been discussed here
really recently:

https://public-inbox.org/git/CACSZ0Pwzs2e7E5RUEPDcEUsa=inzCyBAptU7YaCUw+5=MutSsA@mail.gmail.com/
https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/

So Martin, there's already a nascent tool that does this. It looks like
the main thing it needs now is users & testers.