From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Ardill Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:20:52 +1100 Message-ID: References: <7vhay9tqs6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120229225304.GA9099@burratino> <7vaa41qgf4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Greg Troxel , Jonathan Nieder , opticyclic , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 01 02:21:22 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 1S2uhr-0005yL-Og for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:21:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757956Ab2CABVO convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:21:14 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:53148 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755762Ab2CABVN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:21:13 -0500 Received: by wejx9 with SMTP id x9so32395wej.19 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of andrew.ardill@gmail.com designates 10.180.104.4 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.104.4; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of andrew.ardill@gmail.com designates 10.180.104.4 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=andrew.ardill@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=andrew.ardill@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.104.4]) by 10.180.104.4 with SMTP id ga4mr21803306wib.17.1330564872745 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:21:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r14vfxIgWp7v9MY47g85EeZQnSF7My+LzEjislmAlnk=; b=UGg+NvkFPrxA2t5Q6hH+lUm0N56qSsN/alEFdP3pU6A2v50SZT/J1qhp4/rLFBc0Yz TNDWD6lWZUHuerp2ubdFcTLGrp3pSzaHLGv78pa/poYHbY0/yvIRx3IUqkCUUimXsGfr pmRJXusla6vKboItBxusN2Nyrb1EXwTMwvkjE= Received: by 10.180.104.4 with SMTP id ga4mr17439372wib.17.1330564872700; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.96.133 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:20:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7vaa41qgf4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 1 March 2012 12:05, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andrew Ardill writes: > >> On 1 March 2012 11:37, Greg Troxel wrote: >>> >>> Do people really think it's reasonable to use non-Free tools to dev= elop >>> git? That seems surprising to me. >> >> Maybe not, and if that is the case I am more than happy to let this = die. > > I won't speculate how big or small part of the Git community you woul= d be > repelling by using a closed/commertial offering. It may not be such a= big > deal, or it may be. I simply do not know. Neither do I - let's find out! > But we will never find out until we try. The same thing can be said f= or > the usefulness of having a bug tracker and feasibility of keeping it > reasonably clean and useful over time with volunteer effort. =C2=A0I = commend > you for finally stepping up and biting the bullet to start an experim= ent. I have been meaning to get this going for a few months now, the latest thread kickstarted me again. > One request I may have is to give read/browse-only access to unregist= ered > users without any account (I hate having to maintain credentials to r= andom > websites, and I imagine so do many other people), but I am not the ta= rget > audience, so please do not bend backwards to implement such if it is = too > much trouble with the system. > > Thanks. I have given browse access by default to Anyone (does not require log-in). JIRA is highly customisable, so most requests are typically feasible. Regards, Andrew Ardill