D Bugzilla is still the right place to report problems

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 17:26:11 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 17:04:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 16, 2024 6:27:14 AM MST Andrea Fontana via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 00:32:13 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>>> > With all what's going on, I wanted to remind you that. In 
>>> > case you want it to be ever fixed. Roger this ?
>>> >
>>> > https://issues.dlang.org/
>>>
>>> I still don't get why we're not using github for issues in 
>>> 2024.
>>
>> Personally, I don't get why you'd use github issues when you 
>> have bugzilla, because bugzilla is a superior tool for dealing 
>> with bug reports. Github issues make a lot of sense for small 
>> projects where you don't want to go to the trouble of setting 
>> up your own instance of bugzilla, but for larger projects, 
>> they're a mess in comparison.
>>
>> That being said, D management has been convinced to switch to 
>> using github issues, and work is being done on migrating the 
>> issues on bugzilla to github, but it takes time. I think that 
>> they're getting close to pulling the trigger on it though.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> 1. Because everyone is on GitHub
> 2. Bugzilla is a much older tool with an unfriendly interface 
> even though plenty of people got used to it.
> 3. Bugzilla currently does not accepts gmail accounts to be 
> created, with it is a big shoot in the foot
> 4. I personally find bugzilla a lot inferior on navigation and 
> user discussion

5. Positives and negatives of both approaches were known at the 
time and the decision was made under the condition that the user 
experience would be basically the same (e.g. not only issues 
would get migrated, but also comments, which caused some issues 
for a time I believe). Changing now would just be a big waste of 
people's time*.

* I know that's a sunk cost fallacy, but it falls well within the 
recent discussion of social-technical issues in managing the D 
language.