Re: issue tracker?

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Hi Mario,

> On 07/06/2020 04:38, Bastien wrote:
>
>         anybody can
>         'vote-for' a bug, and you keep a counter on voted-for.
>         
>     It would require people to register on updates.orgmode.org.
>     I'm not sure the expected benefit is really worth it for now.
>     
> why would it?  you already trust email senders on identity and
> integrity in all ways, you can also add this one.  

Yes, indeed.  But it would add a bit of complexity as I would need to
register the votes somehow.  

I'd rather see if people start using "X-Woof-Bug: confirmed" for bugs
before handling "X-Woof-Bug: vote" or something.

> a user is an email address.  the benefit, in my eyes, is for you to
> have a measure of the opinion of (voiceful) users.

Still, a confirmed bug is something that needs to be fixed, and I'd
rather have people spend time on confirming bugs than on voting for
them.  Let's see later on if your idea gets more support.

>         a maintainer can 'confirm' (that fixing that bug is
>         desirable). 
>         
>     I think it is important that anyone can confirm a bug.
>     
> I see differences among -confirming a behaviour, -confirming that a
> behaviour is a bug, -asserting that a maintainer would accept a
> "correction".  please drop the subject if you don't want me to argue
> in favour of something you have already discarded.

I don't discard anything, and discussion is always fine.  It is just
that I don't want to overengineer something that has not proved its
efficacity yet.  Maybe later.

>     That said, I would love to organize a hackathon for Org-mode where
>     people would gather online for one day, exchange ideas, break and fix
>     things, propose new features, etc.  That is, IMHO, the way to recruit
>     new contributors, on top of simply formally asking "who would like to
>     be in charge of X, Y and Z?"
>     
> I like the `#emacs' irc chatroom on freenode, I discovered it
> recently.  the more specific chatroom `#org-mode' is less active but
> not less welcoming.  it was there where I got the hint to write here,
> and where they told me "no need to subscribe".  or open a new
> temporary room, but I hope we stay with IRC, which we can use from
> within an emacs buffer.

I don't spend time on #org-mode but I've heard this is a nice place,
I'm glad some people are welcoming new users/contributors there.

Best,

-- 
 Bastien