From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:53:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests
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opticyclic <opticyclic@gmail.com> writes:

> Firstly, why is there no Bug Tracker such as JIRA for the git project?

Probably because nobody volunteered to set-up, actively de-dupe, triage
and maintain it in general.

> Secondly, since one of the alleged reasons for creating git was to not
> have to deal with patches, why are pull requests disable and patches
> sent to this mailing list?!

I think Brian already corrected whoever "alleges" such.

We prefer to develop in the open, reviewing and improving both patches and
ideas on the mailing list, without having to rely on a single project
hosting site everybody has to go and deal with web based interface.