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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:20:42 +0100
From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
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Subject: Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS,
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Am 2013-12-17 23:33, schrieb John Marino:
> Over the months I've seen several ports users copy a failure log and
> mail it to ports@, usually without even saying "hello".  I've tried to
> discourage that behavior but other members of this mail list encourage
> this method of bypassing writing PRs.  One user even proudly boasted
> that sending email to ports@ is faster than writing a PR so of course 
> he
> was going to do that instead.
> 

That only shows how badly GNATS sucks and that it's much more 
uncomfortable to
use than writing a mail.
I totally agree that error need to be tracked in an error tracker where 
reports
don't get lost, you have a proper history etc. pp. but GNATS is just 
ancient and
should have died in a fire a long time ago.