[go-nuts] Github independent issue tracker

2019-01-08 Thread Jan Mercl
In the thread "Go 1.12 Beta 1 is released", Ian Lance Taylor wrote : > > *: It would be nice if the Go team could possibly figure out some way > > how to make it easier to use input from people willing to participate > > in the

Re: [go-nuts] Github independent issue tracker

2019-01-08 Thread Jakob Borg
On 8 Jan 2019, at 10:25, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: Wrt the acceptable identity, I think one of the options is a GMail/Google account I hesitate to get involved in this discussion at all, but the world view where a Google tied identity is acceptable but a GitH

Re: [go-nuts] Github independent issue tracker

2019-01-08 Thread Jan Mercl
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:35 AM Jakob Borg wrote: > I hesitate to get involved in this discussion at all, but the world view where a Google tied identity is acceptable but a GitHub one is not, is somewhat foreign to me. I have both kinds and I’m not particularly > affected by the outcome, but I t

Re: [go-nuts] Github independent issue tracker

2019-01-08 Thread Jakob Borg
On 8 Jan 2019, at 11:11, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: But the most important thing is that no one is suggesting "eschewing GitHub". The topic of this thread was listed in the OP: How to make it easy/easier for people without a MS account to contribute to the proj

Re: [go-nuts] Github independent issue tracker

2019-01-08 Thread Sebastien Binet
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:04 PM Jakob Borg wrote: > On 8 Jan 2019, at 11:11, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > But the most important thing is that no one is suggesting "eschewing > GitHub". The topic of this thread was listed in the OP: How to make it > easy/easier for people without a M

Re: [go-nuts] Github independent issue tracker

2019-01-08 Thread Dan Kortschak
My suspicion is that using the email reply would require that the correspondent be a GitHub user (possibly even a GitHub user subscribed to the issue). This would not be the case for Jan with a bot having filed the issue by proxy. In that case he probably would not even have received any email noti