git@vger.kernel.org mailing list mirror (one of many)
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Muré" <batolettre@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-bug: Distributed bug tracker embedded in git
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:26:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180818222654.GD144170@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871savqpvo.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> I'm just pointing out in the more general case that if someone comes up
> with a badly named git-xyz it doesn't scale to try to point this out to
> them before git-xyz is widely deployed.
>
> So we must either let it go (solution #1), or come up with some
> API-level solution that makes it a non-issue (my #3).

How about solution #4: live and let live when it comes down to it, but
act like actual people and talk to avoid negative consequences?

Some social problems don't have technical solutions.

Talking scales, in strange ways.  For example, people are able to look
at the list archive, people are able to spread thoughts they have
found interesting, and so on.

Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-18 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17 22:06 git-bug: Distributed bug tracker embedded in git Michael Muré
2018-08-17 23:20 ` Tacitus Aedifex
2018-08-18  5:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-18 12:24   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-18 20:42     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-18 21:53       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-18 22:08         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-18 22:19           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-18 22:26             ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2018-08-19 21:08           ` Jeff King
2018-08-18 16:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-19  1:27   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-19  4:00     ` Kyle Meyer
2018-08-19  5:01       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-18 22:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-19  0:45   ` Michael Muré
2018-08-19  1:14     ` Michael Muré
2018-08-19  2:06   ` Elijah Newren

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20180818222654.GD144170@aiede.svl.corp.google.com \
    --to=jrnieder@gmail.com \
    --cc=Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de \
    --cc=avarab@gmail.com \
    --cc=batolettre@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).