Sure it would. A bug tracker has its purpose and is also good for discussing specific issues. But a development mailing list (or forum if thats what people want) is good for development discussion, questions about development, etc. I was just responding to Geuis' specific comment about mailing lists not being a good medium for development discussion.
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:23:49PM GMT, Script Head [scripthead@gmail.com] said the following:
Wouldn't a bug tracker such as Mantis (http://www.mantisbt.org/) be a more effective way to track bugs? While at it, using a version control system such as Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) would be more effective way to resolve such bugs and maintain the application.
ScriptHead
On 10/13/05, Mark Krenz mark@suso.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:58:56PM GMT, Geuis Teses [geuis.teses@gmail.com] said the following:
Mailing lists are a very inefficient means of communicating on an open-source project.
Says you. That must be why so many successful open source projects use them for their development team.
-- Mark S. Krenz IT Director Suso Technology Services, Inc. http://suso.org/