From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:12:51 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040612040752.6887.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> References: <20040611122633.5F88.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087006415 31064 80.91.224.253 (12 Jun 2004 02:13:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 02:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 12 04:13:27 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYy1O-00023k-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:13:26 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYy1O-0006tJ-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:13:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYy2A-0000s3-8s for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYy28-0000ry-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYy26-0000rl-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYy26-0000ri-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.81.186.17] (helo=smtp07.retemail.es) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYy0o-0003Bq-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([213.37.34.195]) by smtp07.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20040612021249.LOUX18116.smtp07.retemail.es@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:12:49 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.09.01 [en] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24855 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24855 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:59 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > However, using some special > "issue tracker" seems like doing it the hard way. Why? Why it is the good way for so many projects and would be "hard" for us? Issue trackers have many advantages, from statistics to easy work flow, from categorization of bugs to accesibility to outside and/or casual users. > The main job is collecting the information to put in the file. I agree. And certainly, we can do that (using an etc/BUGS file) if that's what's decided. It would already be better than what we do now. But a few of us have expressed interest in finding a good solution via a dedicated software solution. Are you vetoing it? /L/e/k/t/u