Re: Git Survey summary

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On 9/21/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
> > - A place to post bugs and feature requests (if bugzilla is too big,
> > maybe mantis?)
>
> Isn't this mailing list the place to post bugreports and feature requests
> (and of course patches)?

Because it's harder to keep track of a long-living bug/request which
spans many threads. I think git mailing list is for git development
and helping users. It's not clear it should be a place to request
features. I'm still wondering why people requested a lot in the survey
while more than half subscribed to the mailing list. I personally feel
the mailing list is a place for _contributing_ features (thoughtful
ideas or patches) not just requesting features (desires without no
clear idea how to implement it).
Anyway it's still good to clearly state the git mailing list is for
discussion, bug reports and feature requests in git.7 man page
(together with git homepage maybe)

>  Any bugtracker has to be tied to mailing list, and
> perhaps also two-way to gitweb (gitweb making links to bugtracker issues,
> bugtracker having links to gitweb; perhaps incrementing revision
> numbers...).
Ruby (or YARV, I don't remember exactly) uses a bug tracking system
that depends heavily on mailing lists (open bug with a mail, close bug
with a mail ...). The benefit is that we have at least bug numbers :-)

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> Jakub Narebski
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Duy