From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66157D9B for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-f53.google.com (mail-io1-f53.google.com [209.85.166.53]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42EFF34F for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f53.google.com with SMTP id m24so7520539ioo.2 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:54:42 -0700 (PDT) To: Linus Torvalds , Sasha Levin , Laura Abbott , ksummit , skhan@linuxfoundation.org References: <0bc02b84-4d9a-59a7-e6c6-a3b602adca73@linuxfoundation.org> <1018c8ba-61a0-c024-cd98-3b82ebd710ec@redhat.com> <20190602180913.GR12898@sasha-vm> <667d4900-0a9a-d6f8-7012-3c15c2df7da8@linuxfoundation.org> <20190603180953.GA17954@chatter.i7.local> <20190604214303.GB17589@chatter.i7.local> <4bc7ff3c-d190-f9a0-5088-9dc99ab7741d@linuxfoundation.org> <20190604222214.GA20929@chatter.i7.local> From: Shuah Khan Message-ID: <93cb1eea-fe5e-2ea7-a3b7-8fbea8769583@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:54:40 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190604222214.GA20929@chatter.i7.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Squashing bugs! List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 6/4/19 4:22 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 04:02:21PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: >>>>> May I recommend using a project like git-bug [1] instead of a mailing >>>>> list? >>>> >> >> I experimented with git-bug a bit. Doesn't look like it is mature enough >> for our use. It depends on golang-go >> >> I would like to have the option to build from sources, the instructions >> are rather poor and couldn't build following those. >> I was able to compile with "go" under my home directory finally and run a few commands on git-bug repo. There is the next step of trying to see if it works for other repos. I still have my concerns about dependency on "go" and I would like to get this to work under a non-home directory structure. >> Is there another git-bug like option we can look into? > > If there exists one, I'm unaware of it, unfortunately. The right person > to talk to about developing something like this would be the author of > Public-Inbox (Eric Wong), who digs distributed systems and would > probably love working on something like this. > Okay. > However, I have been unsuccessful in getting LF to fund such development > projects, and he's certainly not in a position to work on something like > this for free. > > Hey, you work at LF now. Maybe you'll have more luck convincing The > Right People that this is important work that would greatly benefit the > Linux community? :) > :) My thoughts on this are: "we needed a solution yesterday" and we can't start building a shelter for rain while its raining. We need some interim solution, even if we choose to explore a long term project development idea. thanks, -- Shuah