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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 08:00:29
Message-Id: 1509523223.1184.2.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Discontinuing the support for GitHub pull requests by Kent Fredric
1 W dniu śro, 01.11.2017 o godzinie 12∶48 +1300, użytkownik Kent Fredric
2 napisał:
3 > On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:19:30 +0100
4 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
5 >
6 > > The harm is that issues are left unnoticed, and users are left
7 > > on the ice.
8 >
9 > That's exactly the problem with bugzilla today.
10 >
11 > We're not closing bugzilla.
12 >
13 > Closing PR's as an option doesn't improve the situation.
14 >
15 > Closing bugs due to being open more than a month doesn't help users
16 > either, it just pisses them off further.
17
18 The difference is that Bugzilla has a clear assignment rules, and unless
19 one screws them up, we can monitor the situation and reassign them as
20 inactive maintainers are removed.
21
22 PRs are pretty much one big bucket of mess, and the more of them are
23 open, the harder it is to figure out what they are about and what's
24 the status of them.
25
26 And yes, GitHub sucks at this.
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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