From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:19:24 -0600 Message-ID: <20120302041924.GG5248@burratino> References: <7vhay9tqs6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120229225304.GA9099@burratino> <8762eoimp0.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <7vmx80nt68.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4F504699.3070406@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Thomas Rast , Andrew Ardill , opticyclic , git@vger.kernel.org To: Neal Kreitzinger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 02 05:20:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3JyO-0001fk-1r for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:20:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754797Ab2CBETb (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:19:31 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:43237 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754539Ab2CBETa (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:19:30 -0500 Received: by iagz16 with SMTP id z16so1776211iag.19 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jrnieder@gmail.com designates 10.50.186.198 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.50.186.198; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jrnieder@gmail.com designates 10.50.186.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jrnieder@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=jrnieder@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.50.186.198]) by 10.50.186.198 with SMTP id fm6mr348805igc.40.1330661970387 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:19:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=s5eIWilaL2l61CDiSDMsbuk6+Eq4HeG/DrUU8u3/56U=; b=fcvbFrMStdjuWTSvuIQMIl7amrXbXiHNQEOebDAYZsEKQxTR406BXRLIAH7dFhoXZd nU/DOcLZIHv+lxBmF6kcmwZhstRqivOi2HRBgIMxhE76HFBclW1edMdF59x+rvcM+s7y FoL6aIJY2MNkvVCE8rzc/LNA1B06mBACcOE1y8QOIVvplg2iSl7Qfj+sAudki5VsIZuQ ZnAEqns3aqseMByRPf55pmTzsivdZTdfIOiqFeNGx7GIHiwktHf2JKqVyoLxqeC0Fyul /cX+mn5IQs/jcFrIDs+wkUPvwMrthz8mLPGi2Sa/XxkIxU/Cl8cLyDQOvn9ogt2GVLal tVjQ== Received: by 10.50.186.198 with SMTP id fm6mr290589igc.40.1330661970326; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from burratino (c-24-1-56-9.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [24.1.56.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id df2sm491564igb.10.2012.03.01.20.19.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:19:29 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F504699.3070406@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Neal Kreitzinger wrote: > Why don't you just use git for your bug-tracking? [...] > I think git people in general would be enthusiastic about this Not this git person. ;-) I think there is a pretty major mismatch between most VCSen's features and what a bugtracker needs. That said, a good distributed bugtracker (which implies solving hard social problems like "what to do if different contributors disagree on severity" and simple technical problems like "how to present a coherent conversation based on threads by people who might not have been aware of each other") would be a very nice thing to see, regardless of the choice of storage and network protocol used to back it. > git-err-done Heh. Thanks for some food for thought, Jonathan