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: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:21:53 -0800 Message-ID: <7vty27k4ym.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Neal Kreitzinger , Thomas Rast , Andrew Ardill , opticyclic , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 02 05:22:02 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 1S3K0I-0002qf-0j for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:22:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754830Ab2CBEV5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:21:57 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:42964 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753914Ab2CBEV4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:21:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057777D24; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:21:56 -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=kwhWQgDLp+8jFRbHHe4cvJXzZ08=; b=mv/IZR 9gEPq7Ljwd7A4IncaB6e6cXqeW2CxCxSuwTf2Qsqysp1pKTm/GLYNhuOnjlLVoiq Duji9OpSflrE8c4lQD8DTYty2IE6OoSsvfv8wSnyroIgEXrCQ2N/9bXPNsWkFxYx ieFpejE31M2xKUeMCIVnPJpBplg1r8Wr/rcT4= 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=ljWAB518rXGp5a/qTBneM/5+MaYOhoLD Qgchk3z+Gp1gstP1tIZ01TyX8/oSZzWAz0mXnm/1020YmR/YjUsZ/wZl0GL4iZET v854KBavAKM3iTETQjZVL048HdWJ+F6KqxTY3KB6+XYaIvWtxCnD7S/d2pjfyaHQ AVQ6G7hWGGg= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05D37D23; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:21:55 -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 6BCCB7D22; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:21:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20120302041924.GG5248@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:19:24 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3E9CAFBE-641F-11E1-B315-9DB42E706CDE-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: Jonathan Nieder writes: > 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. Exactly. In the discussion of the "tracker" context, the choice of storage medium is secondary.