Hello, On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 01:58pm +05, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:18:06AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Since several people seem to be sharing their experiences with >> (undesirable) challenges in becoming a DD, I thought I'd add a point >> that seemingly hasn't been covered yet: >> >> The BTS is core to Debian. It is e-mail based. While I personally think >> e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the BTS' asynchronous nature >> did cause me a lot of extra pointless work when I was an outsider >> attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100% confident with the system, >> I way too often found myself waiting minutes – as much as 10 or 15 – for >> replies to simple operations. > > TBH there is a difference between "email based and asynchronous" and > "needs at least 10 minutes to process a request". It seems to be a problem > specific to the BTS. The GNU instance of debbugs, which I interact with regularly, is like lightning compared to ours, and it does help. -- Sean Whitton
