At some point I wanted to reply to the "Subject: none" thread Pjotr opened. It kept growing and growing, and hit the length where I don't feel like I want to add to it. After many years I switched to notmuch for emails, because it all just sucks. And even with notmuch, it just sucks: I apply tags to emails, sort emails with tags which are relevant, but it doesn't fix email itself. And that's the biggest problem I see here. Our communication is based on a patchset of ancient technologies which require figuring out how to fix their flaws by choosing the best user agent which does more than just reading and sending email. In my opinion we need something which provides *optional* email access or emacs interface if you want that, but in general uses a framework with sorting and management built in. Email does the worst job. Email makes me personally angry. If I have to tell someone to use a different mail user agent because theirs is "obviously broken", the problem is not with the application. It's with Email itself. I could go on about email and corporate networks with statistics, but this is not my intention here.
On QA, this is okay. We need that like every operating system. As long as we keep a culture of discussion alive and can talk about problems and manage to respect our own code of conduct and solve problems, we are doing a good job. These are my comments on the part of the thread I've read. But I want this to be an inspiration for some questions and looking for a solution to them. Ludovic: You said you tried various alternatives for patches/bugs etc tracking in the past 3(?) years of Guix. Can you please summarize what you remember about the applications you tested, positive and negative results? All: Please share your experiences, positive and negative, with project management frameworks. Ideally it covers patches, discussions, bugtracking and is accessible and usable at least via web browser. I want us all to gather experiences, feedback, and ideas and see which compromises we have to make to get to the point where we solved this big problem. We'll definitely have to make compromises. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 For non-prism friendly talk find me on http://www.psyced.org
