<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br></div><div>What is the bug tracker system used by Illumos: <a href="https://www.illumos.org/issues">https://www.illumos.org/issues</a> ?</div><div><br></div><div>it is</div><div>- not user friendly</div><div>- doesn't have dark mode</div><div>- not markdown friendly</div><div>- options to do simple things are not intuitive such as adding comments and so on..</div><div><br></div><div>folks are supporting this tooling, what did you like about it?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM Jorge Schrauwen via illumos-developer <<a href="mailto:developer@lists.illumos.org">developer@lists.illumos.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> On 16 Aug 2025, at 00:12, Joshua M. Clulow via illumos-developer <<a href="mailto:developer@lists.illumos.org" target="_blank">developer@lists.illumos.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 14:56, Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com" target="_blank">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Thanks to both of you.<br>
> <br>
> You're welcome!<br>
> <br>
>> May I suggest we move <a href="https://www.illumos.org/projects" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.illumos.org/projects</a> to Github or GitLab?<br>
>> Old tools look daunting and will essentially alienate new contributors. Potential contributors are mostly using Github/Gitlab IMO.<br>
> <br>
> It has certainly been considered in the past, but it really isn't<br>
> clear that merely changing to a different bug tracker or code review<br>
> system is going to result in a significant wave of serious new<br>
> contributions.<br>
<br>
Not that I have contributed much, I did go through the whole flow for a pam feature I wanted and personally I found gerrit to be a nice tool for the whole review and feedback cycle.<br>
<br>
I even tried to get some of at $work to look at it as I found it better than github’s flow.<br>
<br>
I’m not sure switching tooling here would help much.<br>
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> <br>
> The hurdle we actually have is that working on an operating system is<br>
> itself often daunting. It's a large code base that has been around<br>
> for a long time. It's not the kind of software that most people work<br>
> on. There is a sort of implicit assumption, I guess, that it's going<br>
> to be very difficult instead of merely a different kind of work. This<br>
> isn't actually the case, of course: the kernel is just a big C<br>
> program! Anybody can learn enough to contribute, if they're<br>
> motivated.<br>
> <br>
> I think if you're already keen to contribute, it's unlikely, on<br>
> balance, that the bug tracker is going to be the reason that you<br>
> don't.<br>
> <br>
> Cheers.<br>
> <br>
> --<br>
> Joshua M. Clulow<br>
> <a href="http://blog.sysmgr.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blog.sysmgr.org</a><br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
Jorge<br>
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