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Re: Renovating debbugs (was Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?)



Hi Julien,

thanks and applause for this initiative of yours! I agree the bts could
see several improvements..!

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 06:46:29PM +0200, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:
> We would like debbugs to:
> 0. keep all the e-mail features it currently offers
> 1. process new requests and give feedback instantly
> 2. hide e-mail addresses from public (unauthenticated) web browsing
> 3. have a web UI that makes it possible to submit bugs, reply to bugs,
> manipulate bugs
> 4. have some GitLab (Salsa) integration
> 5. have better, restructured, simplified documentation with full examples
> 6. track merge requests.

Most of these I also very much agree with, however I doubt that *we* want
to hide e-mail addresses from public (unauthenticated) web browsing. In my book
the open development model of Debian is tied to the fact that we the developers
are responsible *and* reachable. Our users can see who made the distribution
they are using. That is a feature.

I've also seen very very few complaints about the fact that the BTS shows
email addresses if submitters and contributors. And I'm definitly not aware
that we identified this as a problem!

Also, I don't really see how to keep all the e-mail features it currently offers,
while hiding email addresses. I quite often look up email addresses in bugs
and contact people directly, definitly more than once per months.


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