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0 pointsalnja8a4y ago0 comments

why does the protocol by which bugs and problems get tracked matter, its not like you dont have an email address already... the bug reporting tool is mentioned on the packages page but not the most clear. http://www.pkgsrc.org/#index2h1

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mdaniel4y ago

I did qualify "for me," indicating that system is not the way that I want to interact with a project

The answer to your question is that searching years of email threads is not the same UX as navigating to a dedicated page for managing the lifecycle of a (bug|feature) that tracks when I can expect a new, or working, version of -- in this case awscli-v2 -- to show up, or (if reasonable) that I can indicate to others that I'm willing to take responsibility for doing the work to package it, in order to avoid duplicated effort

Plus, again for me, I don't need more email traffic in my life

alnja8aOP4y ago

I understand for you, and i understand the UX is different but i dont see how github issues are much better, compared to something like lists.sr.ht or lkml. I find github issues are just as disorganized in a lot of projects with lots of closed due to duplicate and etc. guix has a bug tracker backed on email that has the ux i think you might expect, i find at least, it worked (while i contributed to it) just as well as a non email workflow.

Anyway I didnt really consider that this is a personal thing so fair enough to not want to deal with the different problems.

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