Re: To save or not to save

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com>]

On 11/16/2012 11:55 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> 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.

Sure, I was just wondering. I like patch review systems, but never 
actually saw the one deployed in GNOME's bugzilla. Anyway, I don't think 
this is a big deal.