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Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 2, 2012, 06:25 UTC
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<20120302062524.GI5248@burratino>
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<4F505F8C.70802@gmail.com>
Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
> Please let me know what else is a "hard social problem".  I'm not a
> bug-tracker expert but I've used a few bug-tracking systems and
> worked plenty of bugs though never on an opensource project so maybe
> I'm not aware of the "hard social problems".

I was not alluding to bug ping-pong (which is a security or discipline problem) but the task of reconciling independent good-faith updates (which is a coordination problem).

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