[maemo-community] email address as bugtracker link for non-small projects?

From: Andrew Flegg andrew at bleb.org
Date: Wed Aug 25 14:46:22 EEST 2010
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:43, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
>
> Understood. Thumbs down isn't a nice way to signal that it'd be better
> to use a bug tracker.

Agreed.

> IMHO, the use of an email address for bug tracking should not be a
> reason to -1 a project, but certainly maintainers should be encouraged
> to set up a better bug tracker if they have "rich functionality".

Agreed. I don't think the quality of *this* version of the software is
diminished by having a mailto: link. The source is available and it
only increases the amount of work on the maintainer if they end up
getting lots of duplicate reports because no-one can check first.

Cheers,

Andrew

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