On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:05:51PM GMT, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi, > > > > While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the > > > BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work > > > when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100% > > > confident with the system, I way too often found myself waiting > > > minutes – as much as 10 or 15 – for replies to simple operations. > > > > agree with this. Also the noisy reply to every message is pretty > > unhelpful - even gmail cant work out what is being acknowledged > > > > > > I'd like to help improve the docuemntation, and suggest ways to make it > > less confusing to use, but the bts's own bug list makes me wonder if > > anyone would review > > I submitted 4 years ago > https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/merge_requests/6, > which got some approving comments, but nobody merged it. Your time is > probably better used contributing to the Debian Developers Reference > or other docs. > > Honestly, I suspect bugs.debian.org is intentionally cumbersome to use > to deter "noobies", and raise the bar for submission so high, that any > bug that actually gets filed is likely already well researched by a > Debian expert and half of the time comes with a patch attached. > Unfortunately it also leads to maintainers having to put more effort > in maintaining the bug reports as the barrier for contributors to help > out with bug triage etc way too high. >
Btw, for triage I used to suggest https://fabre.debian.net to newcomers. I had some hope that it could be a start for something bigger, so I tried to have access to the code to improve a few things but never had an answer from the maintainer :\ Just pointing out this somewhat unknown project which is still online. Bests, -- Tiago Vaz
