"Dicebot"  wrote in message news:lodvdhwaxjdvjbiksynp@forum.dlang.org...

> Erm, no? It is _exactly_ what is needed for endorsement here. Just registering an account is a good enough support for majority of the user base. Because that way you help those more actively using the service to maintain expectations that there is no world outside of it and anyone meaning business must join. This is like "Social Ecosystems 101" basics, I am really worried by someone as extremely competent as you thinking it doesn't matter.

Hey, just because I'm competent in one area doesn't mean I am in others.

And my point was that any contribution to D (hopefully) contributes to D's success, which indirectly endorses github. 

On 9/1/2014 9:11 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Walter Bright"  wrote in message news:ltvuu1$imf$1@digitalmars.com...
>
>> d. making me create an account in order to submit the report
>
> Hmm, this is actually an argument in favour of migrating our issue tracking to
> github, as people are more likely to have an account there.

I know we require an account to submit something to bugzilla. The main reason for that is to reduce spam. But we don't require an account for the forums, so worst case a drive-by bug report can be posted in the forums.


>> Bottom line is, if someone wants to submit a patch via bugzilla, or even
>> email, we should be accommodating, or at least not blow him off. I've often
>> added Bugzilla issues for things I've received via email.
> Generally, patches in bugzilla just rot.  Letting potential contributors think
> their work won't be wasted if they submit it to bugzilla would most likely lead
> to disappointment.

I'm curious what outstanding patches exist in bugzilla. Clearly, we need to make a pass through and check.


> Copy-pasting a bug report into bugzilla is luckily a much less involved process
> than testing, presenting, updating and arguing for a pull request.

Yup.

On 9/1/2014 9:30 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 1) More than one person can read it, and potentially act upon it.
> 2) Much better todo list than searching through thousands upon
> thousands of emails. :)


The D buglist originally was an email folder on my system. That obviously did not scale well :-)

On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 19:25:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/1/2014 9:11 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> "Walter Bright"  wrote in message news:ltvuu1$imf$1@digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> d. making me create an account in order to submit the report
>>
>> Hmm, this is actually an argument in favour of migrating our issue tracking to
>> github, as people are more likely to have an account there.
>
> I know we require an account to submit something to bugzilla. The main reason for that is to reduce spam. But we don't require an account for the forums, so worst case a drive-by bug report can be posted in the forums.

And it is actually not that rare to have a bug report in D.learn eventually filed to bugzilla by someone else but original poster.

On 9/1/2014 12:26 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 9/1/2014 9:30 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 1) More than one person can read it, and potentially act upon it.
>> 2) Much better todo list than searching through thousands upon
>> thousands of emails. :)
>
>
> The D buglist originally was an email folder on my system. That
> obviously did not scale well :-)

I think that was the very first thing I fixed when joining the community.  What a horrible "system" that was.

On 8/30/2014 7:37 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> GitHub is an intrusive closed ecosystem and it is legitimate
> concern for anyone caring about the open internet.

How so? The github repositories are mirrored on my machine as git repositories.

On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:52:45 -0700
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 8/30/2014 7:37 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> > GitHub is an intrusive closed ecosystem and it is legitimate concern for anyone caring about the open internet.
> How so?
"github or GTFO!"

On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 10:57:51 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hello.
>
> there are some c-style array declarations both in druntime and in
> phobos. i made two patches that fixes 'em:
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13401
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13402

Don't want to register on GitHub?
Just use those:
Username: d-random-contributor
Password: d-random-contributor-password

On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 07:11:03 UTC, Tourist wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 10:57:51 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Don't want to register on GitHub?
> Just use those:
> Username: d-random-contributor
> Password: d-random-contributor-password

Thanks. I was thinking about that but that will make the copyright a bit problematic, I think. How could you prove the right for some code and trace back, if needed, to the original author?

Anyway, it is a good step.

On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 07:16:14 UTC, eles wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 07:11:03 UTC, Tourist wrote:
>> On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 10:57:51 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Thanks. I was thinking about that but that will make the copyright a bit problematic, I think. How could you prove the right for some code and trace back, if needed, to the original author?

I mean, you accept the GitHub license and T and C when you create
the account, not every time you (or someone else) logs in.