Hi Ricardo, On Fri, Mar 07 2025, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> I'd rather work on Guix. Then why is there a backlog of bugs? I only see a group of software developers unable to close more bugs than are being opened. It's not because of technical limitations, but because the committers are overwhelmed by the overall bug volume, are afraid to trigger rebuilds or make other big changes, and are generally overworked volunteers who also want to do other things in their lives. > I don't see an active future for the GNU fork of Debbugs There could be. I mated Debbugs with Public Inbox. My system scans Debbugs for changes [1] but does not yet maintain inboxes by bug number. The information is available via the NNTP news protocol, for example with the Gnus configuration below. People could subscribe to bugs via a news reader and reduce their mail load. > [Debbugs] does not even do simple things like delivering notifications > to *everyone* who participates in an issue discussion. Debbugs does not copy folks automatically because many do not want it. In Debian, submitters are often non-technical people. They do not care about how a problem is solved, only when it is. Debbugs does that. Kind regards Felix [1] https://patchwise.org/inbox/bugs-to-scan/ * * * (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "patchwise.org" (nnimap-authenticator anonymous) (nnimap-port "imap") (nnimap-stream network)))
