Re: To save or not to save

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
<lmr redhat com> wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 03:49 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>>
>> Mostly just thinking aloud here (hence this email rather than patches
>> on bz)! Ideas?
>
>
> I was wondering why you guys use this workflow rather than the most common
> 'patches to mailing list' approach... Wouldn't be more beneficial to have
> the patches sent to the ML?

Thats a big debate and I have never seen anyone getting convinced
either way around. :) To each his own I guess, both approaches has its
advantages and disadvantages. The main advantages of bz to me are:

* you can easily track status of the patches at both patch level and
issue/bug/topic-level.
* you can easily setup dependencies
* Get nice reports and even graphs of whats been happening with the project

git-bz makes working with bz pretty convenient and the issues people
have with bz are usually bugs/improvements in bz software that are
fixable, not exactly problems with the approach of using bz itself.

You probably already know the advantages of mailing-lists so I'll
spare you from that.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124