On 21/05/2025 20:23, Marc Haber wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2025 08:48:00 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org>
wrote:
Debian has certainly done many things right in the past 30 years, but
treatment of new contributors is currently pretty harsh, considering
how many cracks and false turns they need to overcome on to become
regular contributors.
I would significantly reduce my enjoyment of Debian if we were to move
away from mailing lists and the BTS. Surely the BTS could be a bit
more friendly in its advanced features, but new contibutors can simply
ignore those, and a motivated person mght build a nice web interface
for those.
I would like to keep the BTS with its opportunity to pull up a
complicated bug report in my mail client WITH FULL THREADING.
Doesn't bugzilla have the same capability through command line, APIs and
Web already?
The inability to hide emails from public web alone shouldn't exist in
any online system. And the regular 30-45 min waits are also unbelievable.
Definitely a big barrier for newcomers.
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Regards,
Ahmad
