From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pretest, devel and bug lists Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:17:42 +1200 Message-ID: <18493.52214.798172.380836@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <007201c8c038$e401e490$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <483C7BC7.3030700@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212011310 3799 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2008 21:48:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:48:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Jason Rumney , rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 28 23:49:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K1TW9-00070t-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 23:49:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1TVN-0001Bd-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1TVJ-0001BY-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1TVG-0001BM-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59238 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1TVG-0001BJ-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:37655) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K1TV5-00029E-SI; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (235.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.235]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9023DA379; Thu, 29 May 2008 09:17:48 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A80E18FC6D; Thu, 29 May 2008 09:17:43 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97934 Archived-At: > So we have exactly what you describe, except that bug-gnu-emacs is now > the "separate bug-tracker list". In other words, not exactly what RMS describes. I think it's overkill for everything that gets sent to bug-gnu-emacs to have a bug number. Some things are fixed immediately and others turn out not to be bugs. I think a separate mailing list is a good idea. Using emacs-pretest-bug for the bug tracker seems to make sense but then I would suggest that M-x report-emacs-bug should then send to emacs-devel. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob