No I don't think opening an issue by email is supported out of the box, although the Github API would allow it. For changing the status it's probably the same story. 2013/10/15 Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> > This is what I was thinking of. > > I did not know about github allowing reply by email. Does it allow opening > a issue by email and changing the status of the report by email? > > While it would require hosting it I know that a system like roundup offers > all that. > > As John said though a simple web interface should be just as acceptable > and I would imagine it would be easier to find a hosted solution with a > simple web interface. However there does seem to be a trend for web > developers to complicate the interface for no apparent reason, other than > to show how much javascript/ajax/other web technology they can use. > > Michael Whapples > On 15/10/2013 21:08, Bert Frees wrote: > > I'm not saying "move to Github", but maybe there is an issue tracker out > there that has the same feature, in which case the accessiblity of the web > interface is not so crucial. > > On 15 Oct 2013, at 22:06, Bert Frees wrote: > > For what it's worth (and I haven't been following the discussion very > closely, so maybe someone mentioned this before): the Github issue tracker > has an "email reply support" feature[1], which basically means that you can > follow and participate in conversations both with email and on the Github > website. > > [1] https://github.com/blog/811-reply-to-comments-from-email > > >