On Wed, 21 May 2025 22:25:36 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Please don't make strawman arguments. If you read the links I provided
>and the how Guix folks summarized their needs, you can see that
>maintaining the e-mail capabilities was one of their main
>requirements.
I have seen Debian discuss introducing Discourse to replace the
mailing lists while claiming this "keeps the feeling of a mailing
list". That is so utterly false...
Listen. You're entitled to suggest new tools. I am entitled to say
that the tools we have are just fine. That's the way it is.
What would help is a web ui built on top of debbugs, and made available to anyone,
possibly by adding another link next to tracker.d.o bugs link.
Something like "the return of the Amancay" but not necessarily built with RoR.
It requires more work than adopting an existing solution, but it wouldn't change
the current workflow, and we'd just get email notifications the same way.
Jérémy