WSJT-X represents current state of the art for weak signals in Amateur Radio communications, but using 'email as a bug database' to keep track of issues decidedly does NOT represent the state of the art in anything. Asking everyone to read all of the emails to see if their issue is represented before sending their own email has repeatedly been shown to not work.
There are plenty of tools <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking_systems> (e.g. JIRA, Github Issues <https://guides.github.com/features/issues/>, even the one built into Sourceforge <https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Tickets/>) that can keep track of a project's list of known issues, priorities, progress towards fixing, etc. and I'd expect the WSJT-X developers must already use something like that. Why that facility is not exposed for at least read access by the hoi polloi is known only to them. If everyone were able to see the list of issues, then it would even be a matter of just replying to the Nth "hey, I get an SSL library issue on startup" message with the URL of the issue. It might even expand the population of people able to contribute to the project in a positive way <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0>. It might help offload this type of 'support' task from the developers. Some issue trackers even prompt the bug reporter to look through the open and resolved issues before filing their issue. The popular tools might require logging into a tool's website, but I would expect that anyone that can configure WSJT-X for Fox-Hound operation on a non-standard frequency should also be able to figure out how to file an issue in a bug tracker. I truly believe that using modern, purpose-built tools for issue tracking tasks would benefit everyone. Are there reasons why we are not doing so? Brian N9ADG
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