Bug report: Take bug reporting off the mailing list

[Karl Berry]

Hi Eyal,

    Subject: Bug report: Take bug reporting off the mailing list

Thanks for taking the time to write.

First, there's no requirement to subscribe in order to post, to any
tug.org mailing list (aside: same is true for nearly all gnu.org lists).
Anyone replying to a report should know enough to "reply all", because
of this.

In my experience in the TeX world, many people would rather just send
email than figure out any bug tracking system; thus the idea of
primarily using the mailing list was/is to encourage bug reporting.

Announcements: there are essentially two announcements per year, one
when the pretest starts and one when the release is made. These are
always mentioned in the general newsletter
(https://lists.tug.org/tex-announce). So a separate announcement list
feels like more overhead than it's worth. (I guess I should mention this
on https://tug.org/texlive/lists.html, though.)

Finally, we have always had an issue tracker on the free forge puszcza,
although admittedly few people know about it and even fewer want to
bother with our project there.
https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?group=texlive

To follow the current herd, I've just re-enabled issues on our github
mirror. We'll see how that goes.

Thanks for the suggestions,
Karl