Jeff Janes wrote:
> For whatever it is worth, one of the frustrations I've had with projects
> (other than PostgreSQL) of which I am a casual users is that reporting a
> single bug meant signing up for yet another account on yet another site and
> learning yet another bug tracking system.
Right.
> I think the email based system is more friendly for the casual user. You
> don't even have to sign up for the bugs mail list as long as people keep
> you CC'ed. I don't think that having a tracker just for the sake of having
> one is going to attract new contributors.
Yay, another vote for debbugs!
> I'd rather, say, put some more work into cleaning the kruft out of the
> To-Do list, then put that effort into migrating the kruft to a fancier
> filing cabinet.
Casual users would need a community account in order to file bugs in the
Todo wiki page. I don't think a wiki page qualifies (by a long mile) as
a bug tracker, anyway.
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