Re: Choice of bug tracker

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/09/2023 10:59, Hugo Thunnissen wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>  writes:
> > There is a sweet spot somewhere, but I don't have any scientific argument for
> > its position. Though if I try to imagine myself 10-15 years younger (rather
> > difficult), the grading would most likely be Github > Gitlab >> Bugzilla > mumi
> > > > Debbugs. Add a pound of salt, of course.
> > There should also be SourceHut on this scale, but I don't know where to put it.
>  From the perspective of a zoomer (born 1997), I'll fill that in for you:
> Github > Gitlab > Sourcehut > Bugzilla > mumi. Not that this reflects my
> personal preference, but looking at my peers it is clear that they
> overwhelmingly prefer the "pull-request GUI" workflow. Looking at
> bugzilla I don't see what it does differently from sourcehut's ticket
> tracker, but sourcehut is more than just a ticket tracker so I rank it
> higher.

Thank you.

> PS: I'm a little surprised that sourcehut is not receiving more love
> here. Looking at sourcehut it seems to be the only forge where email
> based developmen is a first-class citizen. It's also the only forge that
> is licensed under the GPL and whose developers politically align with
> the FSF. It seems to me that a better fit for the emacs project doesn't
> exist.

They do have an email-drived workflow, but a somewhat different one ;-D. 
And they're moderately rigid about it. So that turned out to be a hard 
sell too, at least the last time it was discussed and considered.