Activity Backward Compatibility (was re: Re: joyride 2128 smoketest)

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:42 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
> The goal from the beginning has been to minimize cost-of-entry to
> develop applications for our platform.  Requiring that people set up
> bugzilla in order to receive bug reports is a high bar!  Requiring
> that they have an email address is not.

Not really if we provide something like track-hacks.org.

> By all means let's make our emails integrate nicely with bug reporting
> systems -- all sane bug trackers have an email gateway.  But let's not
> turn the horse tail first by forcing all our activity authors to
> implement the same or similar bug trackers.

I never said we should *not* support email. I said we should *also*
support different communication means.

Marco