Timeline for Why do some big projects, like Git and Debian, only use a mailing list and not an issue tracker?
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| Mar 26, 2013 at 15:33 | comment | added | Wyatt Barnett | +1, beyond linux many big old projects -- and even internet organizations like the IETF -- are built around mail lists. Or really newsgroups which feel more like mailing lists than online communities. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 13:05 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | But that bugtracker is maintained by volunteers outside of the core kernel hackers who enter bugreports from the mailing lists. Conversely, bugs entered directly into the bug tracker are automatically forwarded to the mailing lists, because a lot of the core kernel hackers don't even look at the bug tracker. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 11:22 | comment | added | naught101 | Ok, but the linux kernel now has a bug tracker: bugzilla.kernel.org. Clearly that's not such a large barrier. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 11:17 | comment | added | Donal Fellows | I thought that the WWW preceded Linux. Slightly. They were both very much done at about the same time and by different groups of people; it wasn't really until the mid '90s that either took off. | |
| Mar 26, 2013 at 10:43 | history | answered | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 3.0 |