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

[Dan Wells]

Dan, thanks for adding this.  I was curious about this point exactly, since he states rather bluntly “the bug tracker is a pretty cumbersome place to have a discussion”, which had me scratching my head a bit.

I’ve always been slightly partial towards forum-like environments since they have a certain level of inherent organization which isn’t as strong in a mailing list, but I’m comfortable with either, and I’d be fine with people steering more discussions to the dev list as needed.

Regardless of where discussions happen in the future, I think we should consider a change to keep the noise down in the LP bug mail.  I’ll post that idea as a separate thread, since we could do it independently of whatever we decide here.

Thanks,
Dan

From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
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One side note from an update on Fogel's effort to produce a 2.0 version of that book (and why it has been delayed beyond the original Kickstarter delivery date):

"I started hearing from a ton of people who had thoughtful, constructive suggestions for areas to update. One example: the original edition had a section about not having long conversations in the bug tracker (because the tracker is a poor tool for that, and mailing lists are better).  Well, multiple people have independently written in to say that that might not be so true anymore: bug trackers have evolved, they now integrate better with other communications mechanisms, and for these and other reasons actual practice in many projects has changed -- certain kinds of development conversations do happen in the bug tracker now, and it works."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kfogel/updating-producing-open-source-software-for-2nd-ed/posts/578279
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