From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug tracking Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:06:38 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040612230638.GB13930@fencepost> References: <20040612143605.151D.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> <87zn78wzv6.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040613000234.B07C.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087081698 22345 80.91.224.253 (12 Jun 2004 23:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 01:08:12 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 1BZHbg-0005kG-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 01:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZHbg-00076k-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 01:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZHcU-0005eO-Lr for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZHbS-0005FY-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZHbR-0005FA-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZHbR-0005Ep-93 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZHaG-0000av-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BZHaA-00057r-BN; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:06:38 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040613000234.B07C.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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:24889 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24889 On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:09:04AM +0200, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > Yes, I understand how could it work, I just happen to think that is a > extraordinarily un-optimized way to do things. See etc/TODO: would you > dare say that it is really used for the intended purpose? Many things > in TODO have been there for years, and almost *all* things implemented > or fixed never ever touched TODO. I doubt a fancy `issue tracker' would make a whole lot of difference -- indeed it might make things worse, if it tried to hide what's actually a simple, relatively small, list of items under an unnecessary search interface. I think the best thing for help to get TODO more used would be a bit more structure / categorization in the file, to make it less daunting for first-time viewers, and an easy way for regular developers to see changes to it, without having to explicitly _do_ something, e.g., a special mailing list just for commit diffs to TODO. -Miles -- We live, as we dream -- alone....