• @pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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    43 years ago

    I have not bothered signing up at Github with some “anonymous” email address

    Yeah github sucks. Would be really cool if there was a less involved way to submit bug reports and patches.

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      3 years ago

      Do you have any suggestion how to make it easier? We dont want to have issues in two different places because it would be complicated. The main alternatives I can think of are my Gitea instance (yerbamate.ml) or gitlab.com.

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        Do you have any suggestion how to make it easier?

        I never found a good solution myself, I guess a central bugtracker where guests can post would be the easiest, but most standalone bugtrackers aren’t that good and having pull&review requests in the same place is pretty nice. For (very specialized) personal/friends projects I run a gitea instance with some oauth options enabled. (but iirc that still requires an email)

        We dont want to have issues in two different places because it would be complicated.

        I guess you could post the gitea issues to github/gitlab via a webhook but properly syncing comments would then require a more complicated bot.

        Would gitlab.com be a compromise?

        It’s better but it still requires an account and an email address. I usually go through the trouble of creating throwaway accounts if I think I have something important to contribute but it’s not optimal. (Idk how many people actually care though, might be something for a community poll)

        Maybe you could build a bot that creates issues from lemmy.ml threads in a bugtracker community if they are tagged in a certain way. Lemmy doesn’t require an email address and I’d guess most devs have an account at lemmy.ml or a federated instance.

        • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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          53 years ago

          We could make a Lemmy instance for issues, with a different theme/frontend. Except we dont have time to maintain another project, so someone else would have to do that.

      • dandelion
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        43 years ago

        Self hosted Gitea sounds great. Thanks for the suggestions!

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      Yeah github sucks.

      I think Github was fine from a technology point of view, and with web browser experience it is (just like Gitea) still much better than Gitlab which is kind of useless to read without allowing JavaScript till … Microsoft bought it. I do make some efforts to not get tracked so much by GAMAFC and like to keep it this way.

      Would be really cool if there was a less involved way to submit bug reports and patches.

      Fully agree!