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Re: Add a bugzilla website

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Nov 18, 2013, 07:37 UTC
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On most linux distro bugzilla website, there are some people dedicated to triaging bugs (finding duplicated bugs, asking for more informations, closing old and / or resolved bugs). To have an efficient bugtracking tool needs to have some people dedicated to this. But for the user, it's a better approach. For example, I do not need to register to the devel list and I do not have to watch all mails to locate the one which concerns my bug. It works nicely with fedora, magieia and other distro / tools, so I don't know why this shouldn't work fine with git ? But as far as I can read, most people here are very reluctant to use a bugtracking tool ...

YC
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De: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
À: "ycollette nospam" <ycollette.nospam@free.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Envoyé: Vendredi 15 Novembre 2013 23:57:09
Objet: Re: Add a bugzilla website
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:40:47AM +0100, ycollette.nospam@free.fr wrote:
> And the conclusion is ? No bugzilla tool installed because somebody
> want to build a gitbased bugzilla thing ?

Personally, I do not want Yet Another Bugzilla Account. A project is significantly less likely to get a patch from me if I have to create an account to report a bug. Most of the patches I send to various projects are for bugs I've experienced and want to provide a fix for, so I send a small number of patches to many projects.

I feel that the mailing list workflow ends up working very well for Git and it provides a low barrier to entry for those that want to send just one or two patches for problems that they're experiencing. It also allows me to see and comment on virtually every patch on the list, while ignoring threads I am not interested in, a combination which is difficult to achieve with a web-based bug tracker.

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  1. ycollette.nospam@free.frNov 15, 2013
  2. Damien WyartNov 15, 2013
  3. ycollette.nospam@free.frNov 15, 2013
  4. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 15, 2013
  5. ycollette.nospam@free.frNov 15, 2013
  6. Matthieu MoyNov 15, 2013
  7. David AguilarJan 8, 2014
  8. Andrew ArdillNov 15, 2013
  9. Jonathan NiederNov 15, 2013
  10. brian m. carlsonNov 15, 2013
  11. ycollette.nospam@free.frNov 18, 2013
  12. Matthieu MoyNov 18, 2013
  13. Fwd: Add a bugzilla websiteStefan Saasen, Jan 13, 2014

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