From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:53:29 -0800 Message-ID: <7vhay9tqs6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: opticyclic X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 29 19:53:42 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 1S2oej-0005ux-JG for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:53:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758274Ab2B2Sxf (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:53:35 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:34510 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756683Ab2B2Sxe (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:53:34 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C36671F; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:53:31 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=6MW9m0gGD0+GsXO9FcM7Ty0M6zA=; b=U/0sQr IrwdYYEGpRcS8uOdJhaNH1zwtBcZxvTNAQWL2e5JFEhI54K6j4pthNPqTMCjdWSZ +wnkvRLqvcPxKSAZQwTxDENkNaJ2XXmYL3etNKDZkgBcEcFM4dfHnEDvVfg+f1Xp bmk/lVXJHv19LDxOD0v+yNG0d4IvMxIDhBwSY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=va/5USwrAVjiBtHyzIGRu/etRQyiwONI n3dp06/NiZ1j/qwwN096tybUIfwtaEIebCGQkSSNOBapVz07gXrE7hbGvj62EbzV pIz/x3Ujl9dY75fgC7n0Tm/gKZ45ByUE5Gy/SBGju34pkpamICyd0rj+xv84daaT nUPo3MmMbsE= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5F4671E; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:53:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D60F671C; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:53:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (opticyclic@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:19:45 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AC867F10-6306-11E1-A23A-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: opticyclic writes: > Firstly, why is there no Bug Tracker such as JIRA for the git project? Probably because nobody volunteered to set-up, actively de-dupe, triage and maintain it in general. > Secondly, since one of the alleged reasons for creating git was to not > have to deal with patches, why are pull requests disable and patches > sent to this mailing list?! I think Brian already corrected whoever "alleges" such. We prefer to develop in the open, reviewing and improving both patches and ideas on the mailing list, without having to rely on a single project hosting site everybody has to go and deal with web based interface.