| ▲ | agwa 3 hours ago | |
The simple task of following a bug requires you to: 1. Send an empty email to a special address for the bug. 2. Wait 15-30 minutes for Debian's graylisting mail server to accept your email and reply with a confirmation email. 3. Reply to the confirmation email. The last time I tried to follow a bug, I never got the confirmation email. In practically every other bug tracker, following a bug is just pressing a button. Like most of Debian's developer tooling, the bug tracker gets the job done (most of the time) but it's many times more inconvenient than it needs to be. | ||
| ▲ | kstrauser 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Fair points. But without looking at it myself, and for the benefit of people reading along, do you have to do that if you already have an account on the tracker? For instance, it's easy to follow issues on GitHub, but that's after you've jumped through some similar hoops to create an account. | ||
| ▲ | shmerl 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I use reportbug to simplify the process of initial reporting, but whole interaction is still far from convenient. | ||