From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:25:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests
Message-ID: <20120302062524.GI5248@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <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).