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

From: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2012, 01:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH5451krbyZCRm8JR+kf+8cDqkbnQKnzXGxmncmRF9YPXvckNA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1 March 2012 12:05, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 1 March 2012 11:37, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.

Neither do I - let's find out!

> 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.

I have been meaning to get this going for a few months now, the latest thread kickstarted me again.

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> 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.

I have given browse access by default to Anyone (does not require log-in). JIRA is highly customisable, so most requests are typically feasible.

Regards,

Andrew Ardill