[OPEN-ILS-DEV] a request regarding development communication in the bug tracker

[Sharp, Chris]

Good Morning All,

I've had my head down with local projects since early January, so I'm just now able to tune in a bit on 2.6 development.  I was just chatting with Ben Shum about some 2.6 new features and I came across the discussion happening on https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1198465.  The discussion goes pretty deeply into the rationale for the features being proposed and/or developed, and I would like to request that those sorts of discussions happen here on this list rather than within the dark depths of Launchpad.  

I happen to subscribe to Launchpad bug mail, so I get every communication of new bugs, status changes, and comments added, but I don't always have the time/bandwidth to tune in to every email that comes through (especially during bug retargeting times like now).  I do, however, read every email that comes to this and the Open-ILS-General lists.  When I first started learning about the inner workings of Free and Open Source Software projects, I purchased "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel (http://producingoss.com/), which I think is a great guide for projects like ours written by a veteran of the Subversion project (one of our SFC cousins, incidentally).  In his chapter on communication, he has a section entitled "No Conversations in the Bug Tracker", that I think is worth a read: http://producingoss.com/en/bug-tracker-usage.html.

Given the availability and higher visibility of this list, the difficulty of navigating/searching Launchpad, and perhaps most importantly, the fact that we have recurring discussions about ditching Launchpad in favor of some other bug tracker, I'd like to request that we have discussions like the one on bug 1198465 on the public lists instead.  I'm welcome to alternative opinions on this, so feel free to respond frankly!

Thanks,

Chris

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