Erika Fae Ottsune @Erika@awoo.space

I personally don't always like using git, even today i still sometimes use subversion or mercurial because for certain projects it works so much better for my workflow. [BUT I KNOW IM AN OUTLIER]

I don't like github all that much, I prefer to use bitbucket usually OR HOST IT MYSELF. People shouldn't lose out because of these sorts of decisions and we need to stop pretending that VCS metadata is good enough.

hile in this case, yes Hiveway did decide to use github, this is still a good idea. There are lots of other VCS and lots of other platforms and pretending that git metadata is a good enough show of credit is ABSURD.

We need to make it so that everyone that works on these projects gets the credit they deserve, even in snapshots, even when it is eventually hosted on other VCS.

Seriously pondering making an issue on Mastodon & Glitchsoc that is as follows:

* Create a Contributors file

create a file which contains the name, optionally email/handle of every single person who has contributed code to this project. This will help keep contributors having credit even if the project is hosted on other platforms than github or using different VCS systems than git. It is a silly assumption to assume that everyone is going to use the same VCS platform and hosting.

Maybe github issues was literally the worst thing to happen to open source development.

i say "well me" in the CW, but i know its far far more than just me.

the number of people i've ran into who just have basically spoken and said they've outright not reported bugs because of this is actually extremely high.

heck. some of my best bug reports came from /IRC/ and people complaining about my software's issues. I literally copied the log into our bug tracker and used it to actually figure stuff out.

my recommendation would to be, for projects to assign someone to do bug triage, yes, its very boring work, but expecting the person reporting the bug to do it, only results in poorer quality original reports that result in someone who could give better reports not bothering or bugs to not be reported at all

imo both of those options are worse than having one of your volunteers to sit down and just, sift through the new reports every night and close the dups

Bug trackers, especially those with more than a few bugs... are extremely overwealming.

When you expect people to not only report bugs, but ALSO do all the bug triage themselves, it literally becomes so overwealming that even trying to report a bug is not worth the effort.

Yes i understand that its hard for devs to wade through many duplicates, but it is often much harder for non-technical, burned out, and disabled people to do that whole process.

Does anyone have the "Try Again" sample from DSI's Moto Racer by any chance?

Does anyone else know that feel when your entire body like, resonates with a really good shape that fits you and it like, overlays with you?

so like, you actually feel like your body is actually that shape?

Firefox 4 was the last version of firefox that was ACTUALLY GOOD

Hi I exist, and i'm an otter for some reason now?!

awoo?