Why don't you use the Github issue system?

deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 3 16:37:04 PST 2016


On Thursday, 3 March 2016 at 23:54:15 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 March 2016 at 00:27:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/2/2016 3:59 PM, Seb wrote:
>>> I am just curious whether you have already considered moving 
>>> from Bugzilla to
>>> the Github issue system and where your current opinion is.
>>
>> 1. Bugzilla is working famously for us.
>>
>> 2. I've had occasion to use github issues, and was surprised 
>> by how lame it was compared to Bugzilla. There's no contest.
>>
>> 3. If Github goes dark, we still have our local complete 
>> copies of the git database. If Github issues goes dark, we 
>> lose it all. We control the Bugzilla database. This database 
>> is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to D's future, and not having a copy of 
>> it is absolutely unacceptable.
>
> We'd still lose all pull requests though and all discussions 
> about them. Does any, hmm, "pullrequestzilla" thing exist?

phabricator does a pretty good job (better than github in many 
cases IMO).


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