Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[MSavoritias]

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 12:53, MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me> wrote:
>
>> Do you know if there are any plans to write a scheme bug/patching
>> system? Because looking a bit into it, it doesn't seem like its that
>> actively developed so maybe we would be better served by one in scheme.
>> Or Sourcehut of course as somebody wrote in another email.
>> Since not much would change with sr.ht anyways.
>
> The only work I know is named tissue by Arun Isaac.  Arun also
> contributes to Mumi (one web front-end of the venerable Debbugs instance
> of the GNU project).
>
>     https://tissue.systemreboot.net/
>     https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/tissue/
>
> Well, I am not convinced by the argument « we would be better served by
> one in scheme ».  For instance, Cuirass or Build Coordinator or even
> Mumi, all are implemented in Scheme and they are receiving very few
> contributions.
>
>     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-cuirass.git
>     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/build-coordinator.git/
>     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/mumi.git/
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon

Its more about:
If debbugs has issues and we dont fully control it and can make those
improvements, why not something in scheme instead of sr.ht?
But i could go either way.

MSavoritias