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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2012, 01:05 UTC
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Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 1 March 2012 11:37, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
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>> Do people really think it's reasonable to use non-Free tools to develop
>> 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 would 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.

But we will never find out until we try. The same thing can be said for the usefulness of having a bug tracker and feasibility of keeping it reasonably clean and useful over time with volunteer effort. I commend you for finally stepping up and biting the bullet to start an experiment.

One request I may have is to give read/browse-only access to unregistered users without any account (I hate having to maintain credentials to random websites, and I imagine so do many other people), but I am not the target audience, so please do not bend backwards to implement such if it is too much trouble with the system.

Thanks.