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: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 00:25:24 -0600 Message-ID: <20120302062524.GI5248@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> <20120302041924.GG5248@burratino> <4F505F8C.70802@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 07:25:37 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 1S3Lvr-0008P2-Q3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:25:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755802Ab2CBGZb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2012 01:25:31 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:54533 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750949Ab2CBGZa (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2012 01:25:30 -0500 Received: by iagz16 with SMTP id z16so1881501iag.19 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jrnieder@gmail.com designates 10.42.140.199 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.42.140.199; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jrnieder@gmail.com designates 10.42.140.199 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jrnieder@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=jrnieder@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.42.140.199]) by 10.42.140.199 with SMTP id l7mr6022591icu.28.1330669530250 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:25:30 -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=F+dZeK++/qllj6qYdBnvDxoNYBEl/2s/rxUNC8djBpA=; b=Q0HMSpuygDS4J8QF74uhy0NmZPj6wIgWuFEuyem679YFGVBSWmoZRVjLhh/THzNhLd Z8Ce7wgb7ppxIiAiXSkZou/VrAofb7iXvIk9XieZCwUfwnxSXKeF4vFKwdIa72hfRy6y puYIqm4a7rw7Bf3vSijN7SUfVcTJ0t94WSmVdygEb4R0gRqZETzb8ctyWjhjdMRCLeyp bincC1I9p6xsxmokR+ii5Mb356Poljyl6aNvif4KswzVFS8h4ZaBJLrE9Ay2MX29w6qf xD5TyhREtSH39qTikxyKqIlOiJ/c4cYo3NasUNvimfGgXAhrCbPwlsOzLMbam4CcyuZx GR9Q== Received: by 10.42.140.199 with SMTP id l7mr4932825icu.28.1330669530192; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:25:30 -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 eo1sm666519igc.17.2012.03.01.22.25.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:25:29 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F505F8C.70802@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: > Please let me know what else is a "hard social problem". I'm not a > bug-tracker expert but I've used a few bug-tracking systems and > worked plenty of bugs though never on an opensource project so maybe > I'm not aware of the "hard social problems". I was not alluding to bug ping-pong (which is a security or discipline problem) but the task of reconciling independent good-faith updates (which is a coordination problem).