Idea: An issue tracker for tex-live

Jonathan Fine jfine2358 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 20:40:56 CEST 2021


Norbert wrote:

> What do we gain with github issues what we cannot do via the mailing
> list?
>

This is a good question. It is one of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws
that are basic to problem solving.

Here's an example. Today Martin Preen opened a new thread that reported an
already known issue:
Segmentation Fault while loading format file
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-June/047202.html

Siep Kroonenberg replied, but without supplying a link to the already known
issue:
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-June/047203.html

The already known issue is was reported by Andreas Hirsch:
pdflatex does not work on win after todays update but does on linux
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-June/047055.html

I say that if we were using github issues then Martin would have found
Andreas's report (of his issue), and would then have added a "me too"
comment.

I think this is a benefit. There is of course a cost to moving to a new
system.

-- 
Jonathan
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