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 (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:39:44 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040613023944.GA13072@fencepost> References: <20040512103042.FB57.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040611122633.5F88.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <87659wd44u.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87659wbl2q.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087094421 11098 80.91.224.253 (13 Jun 2004 02:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 04:40:11 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 1BZKup-000514-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 04:40:11 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZKup-0001WH-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 04:40:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZKve-00075k-6J for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZKvU-00075f-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZKvT-00075S-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZKvT-00075P-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZKuU-0008J1-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BZKuO-00049Y-CP; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:39:44 -0400 Original-To: kfogel@red-bean.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87659wbl2q.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> 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:24906 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24906 On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:03:25PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote: > While the tracker does not accept input via email, it does send *out* > an email (to a list) whenever a change is made to an issue. This is > vital functionality, of course. You can read email to follow what's > going on with bugs, then visit the web forms only when you need to > make a comment or whatever. > > (Of course, taking input via email would be even nicer.) It's critical, IMO -- my experience of using mozilla and savannah's bug tracker is that the annoyance of having to go to the web site and muddle through the forms significantly decreased the likelihood that I would bother (it was fine the first N times, but after a while I started to dread it). -Miles -- "Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." -Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"