Re: debbugs irritation Was: [WIP Patch] Adding an FHS container to guix shell

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 02:20, Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> wrote:
>> I was looking for this patch on issues.guix.gnu.org and could not figure
>> out why it's not there and I'd just like to point out that having like 6
>> mailing lists with at least two separate indexes is... not great :) I
>> appreciate everyone's work on Mumi and Debbugs but...  maybe this is an
>> avoidable problem?
>
> Which are these 6 mailing lists?  What do you mean by 2 separate
> indexes?
>
> For the good or not, the GNU project has only one Debbugs instance.
> Mumi is just reading this Debbugs instance database to display the
> information nicely.  Somehow, Mumi is just another frontend to the GNU
> Debbugs instance.  Nothing conceptually different from emacs-debbugs.
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon

Mumi and Debbugs have different search interfaces and seem to use
different ordering.
6 was a slight exaggeration, but development communication happens at
least on:
* patches
* devel
* bugs
And then there is also help, which often overlaps with bugs.
There are also a few others for CI, translation, etc.

IMHO these papercuts add up.  Browsing and cross-referencing issues and
patches is way harder than it is with other forges.
Not saying we need to switch, maybe it's easier to just add the missing
functionality.  Or maybe it doesn't matter to anyone else.