From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7045 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Please consider setting up a bug tracker? Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:16:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20150215161609.GQ23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424016994 4606 80.91.229.3 (15 Feb 2015 16:16:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:16:34 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7058-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Feb 15 17:16:29 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YN1rw-0004Jk-Ut for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:16:29 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 20332 invoked by uid 550); 15 Feb 2015 16:16:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 20275 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2015 16:16:22 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7045 Archived-At: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 05:22:32PM +0200, Jukka Jylänki wrote: > Hi, > > I just recently registered to the musl mailing list to report a bug, since > the FAQ here http://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html mentioned that there is no > separate tracker to report bugs to. > > Afterwards, I now realize that this was a bad idea, since the sheer amount > of uninteresting emails that I began getting make it difficult to filter > out the discussion around musl from the potential discussion to the bug I > reported, and I find it simplest to unregister from the mailing list after > reporting the bug. However, this kind of "fire and forget" bug reporting > feels bad, and I lose the way to keep in touch with the communication > around the bug. > > I see that the issue of setting up a bug tracker has already been discussed > before here http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/09/05/1 . Has anything > changed with this respect? No, but I want a bug/patch tracker more than ever right now. There have been a lot of patches (and a few bug reports) coming in lately and it's hard to keep track of them all manually. So far bugzilla is probably the main candidate, but I also looked at a few others. I'd welcome input on what works well (both from a user standpoint and from an implementation-quality/hosting-considerations standpoint). As for having to subscribe to the list right now, you don't need to. You can report bugs as a non-subscriber. Mail goes to a moderation queue but I'll approve it. Please just include a note if you want to be CC'd on replies. > My recommendation would be to just set up a github repository and use the > github workflow of issues and pull requests for development, since that is > extremely popular for modern open source development and works well also > for non-core developers to chime in to the fun. Not going to happen. github is utterly hideous to work with. It's slow as molasses (the web ui), often down, and doesn't integrate well with other tools. They also have the absolute worst web-based git repo browser, which is completely unjustifiable when the best one (cgit) is free and essentially included with git. Rich