On 28 June 2010 21:37, Heinz-M. Graesing <x2go-dev@x2go.org> wrote:
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This is done, because if everybody can write to the list we would receive a lot of spam. I have to delete really a lot of "non accepted/hold" messages per day which are normally spam only. [snip]
The more of these mundane tasks we can remove from the developers shoulders, the better. I'm sure everyone will agree on this. I hope you're not shy about telling us if there is anything we can do to help make communications and such run smoothly, and without interfering too much with the actual development.
How do you feel about Launchpad.net? Much of the traffic on this list consists of questions or bug reports. By using LP, we could collect questions and answers, so that we can just copy and paste a link to the answer when questions are asked several times. The same goes for bug reports, of course, and it handles translations, blueprints and code as well. Yes, users will still have to register, but launchpad will take care of that.
It seems to me that by opening up a little more, the number of bug reports and questions might increase, but it'll be easier to distribute the load as well. I also think it's important to have a highly visible bug tracker so that testers can help confirm which bugs are reproducible, and if they're not, possibly discern the circumstances required to do so.
Thanks,
Jo-Erlend Schinstad