Stepping back

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue May 15 16:16:52 UTC 2018


On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 10:13 +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:

> We've been facing the same question in Wayland. Here's what I wrote up
> about what I think we should do with that:
>   https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-May/038100.html
> 
> Personally I think having longer discussions and write-ups in
> bugs/issues would make the development a lot more accessible. The list
> is great and it does serve its purpose, but it throws up a barrier to
> entry: you have to be subscribed to the list and get all the mail, to
> participate in discussion. (And that's before you get to the barrier
> to entry of git-send-email etc.)
> 
> I don't really have enough of a stake to make suggestions for X
> development, but that might at least be a good starting point for
> spreading the load a bit.

I'd very much like to see us move to gitlab as much as we can. If
there's broad consensus around that I can spend some time getting
bugzilla and the wiki migrated, which would be a good opportunity to
rephrase bugs as issues and get some collective wisdom written down.

- ajax


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