Refusing to use PRs

Posted Jan 12, 2026 19:52 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Refusing to use PRs by Lennie
Parent article: Evans: A data model for Git (and other docs updates)

You still need some kind of separate infrastructure to do things like:

- needs some kind of side database for accounts (forges provide this for their project metadata already)
- notify users when activity on an issue they're "subscribed to" (more metadata one would want to track) changes (after all, maybe they want email notifications too!)

I've come to the conclusion that issue trackers (all of them) are terrible for *task* tracking because of the disparity in sources. Not all of my work happens on a single forge (or even any forge at all!). The devtodo tool I wrote pulls things in for Github, but other forges shouldn't be too hard. However, they are invaluable for *coordination* with other developers and users, so some kind of public activity should be visible eventually.