Re: Why bash doesn't have bug reporting site?

[Yuri]

On 01/13/2014 12:32, Eric Blake wrote:
> A mailing list IS a bug reporting system.  When something receives as
> low a volume of bug reports as bash, the mailing list archives are
> sufficient for tracking the status of reported bugs.  It's not worth the
> hassle of integrating into a larger system if said system won't be used
> often enough to provide more gains than the cost of learning it.  In
> particular, I will refuse to use any system that requires a web browser
> in order to submit or modify status of a bug (ie. any GOOD bug tracker
> system needs to still interact with an email front-end).

e-mail has quite a few vulnerabilities. Spam, impersonation, etc. In the 
system relying on e-mail, spam filter has to be present. And due to this 
you will get false positives and false negatives, resulting in lost 
information. On the opposite, login-based website access won't lose 
information this way and won't get spam.

Among other benefits:
* Ability to search by various criteria. For ex. database-based tracking 
system can show all open tickets or all your tickets. How can you do 
this in ML?
* Ability to link with patches. In fact, github allows submitters to 
attach a patch, and admin can just merge it in with one click, provided 
there are no conflicts.

Yuri