>
> > You could argue that the web-based issue trackers are more fancy. But
> > this is the problem: they are web-based.
>
> It's not that they are more fancy (though they are), they are more
> familiar to a lot of people. So they lower the barrier for
> participation, in a lot of ways.


Also because you can contribute/report a bug while you are in your browser
just looking at an API makes it very tempting to do so.

For example I have fixed lots of typos in various projects just because the
"Edit in a fork" button was there while I browsed the code curiously. I
would never even have looked at the code if I had to clone it first, let
alone create a patch if it requires me to register to a mailing list.

Also, there's always https://github.com/nlamirault/emacs-gitlab, but at the
moment it looks like it has issues.

Kind regards,
Philippe