On 5 Apr 2014, at 1:41, Boris Dušek wrote:
sorry if I missed it somewhere, but what is the best way to report bugs/feature requests in TextMate?
It depends on the bug/feature request and the user’s preference. The options are listed at http://macromates.com/support (and also a primer on writing bug reports).
Will the github issues come back? Or is still the best way for some user who wants to report accessibility bugs to write to the textmate mailing list? Or to the textmate-dev mailing list?
If the user is OK with mailing lists, then this list is fine (textmate-dev is sort of a legacy list that I am considering shutting down), otherwise one can write support or try IRC (where I am often available).
I’m not sure if GitHub Issues will be back, it felt like an unwanted chore, and as people can still submit bug reports or suggest features, the loss of the issue tracker is IMHO negligible — the main advantage people tend to claim is that one can search through existing issues, nonetheless I closed issues as duplicates daily, so in practice few used that feature, and was just burdening me with administrative work that was hard to outsource (and adding more noise to the issue tracker that degraded the searching experience).
If you’re asking from the POV of a contributor, i.e. how can you be made aware of accessibility issues, then we can relay issues reported.
We can also do a new mailing list for people who use the accessibility features. This would also allow soliciting feedback about the current accessability support and make more detailed announcements about the changes being done to improve it.