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Re:Visual Git by AshamedCaptain on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:47AM (#29066569)
Why do you care about people emailing you at all ? It doesn't matter what you publish or in which state you do it, you will always get a shitton of emails ranging from "but, will this work on my Xbox?" (for a desktop program) to "I see you are expert in $RANDOM_TOPIC, would you kindly help with my homework coding assignment?"

If people would email me about "Hey, I couldn't built this on my system because of Y" or the like, I would actually be very happy.

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Re:Visual Git by jedimastert on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:03AM (#29066713)
Signal-to-noise ratio (I'm talking about bug tracking specifically). If you want to any kind of feedback, you have to take all of it, and if publish in a "rough" state then that noise ratio will be high.
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Re:Visual Git by AshamedCaptain on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:19AM (#29079180)
My point is that the feedback will be mostly crap anyway, and actually releasing it in an unusable state (which is far from the truth) would not change that, or may even increase the quality of the feedback as a filter.

Why would you even have bug tracking?

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