From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:41:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85k5mg6l3x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18311.57006.695288.174882@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:25:02 +1300")
Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:
> > > I think you'd really like debbugs (Debian BTS), Richard, for the same
> > > reasons I love it (as a user). It's completely driven via email and
> > > has few knobs and whistles.
> > >
> > > Documentation about debbugs and a simple reporting form can be found
> > > at:
> > >
> > > http://www.us.debian.org/Bugs/
> >
> > At first it looks nice.
> >
> > But has it support for submitting bugs using web forms?
>
> Good point. We can find a bug tracking system that suits RMS's needs
> but, at the end of the day, it's not worth anything if it doesn't suit
> those of the user. I suspect most, especially younger users, would
> prefer web forms to e-mail.
Please don't act on suspicions about "dumb/younger/whatever users"
alone. While it is certainly not uncommon to suspect the rest of the
world to be composed of strange people whose behaviors and preferences
one can't really comprehend, there would actually be very little
motivation for those to play around with Emacs in the first place.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-11 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-04 16:44 Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-04 17:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-04 18:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-04 18:38 ` Gianluca Della Vedova
2008-01-05 14:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 18:50 ` Gianluca Della Vedova
2008-01-05 19:51 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-05 19:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 20:13 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-05 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-06 10:47 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 22:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 18:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 19:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 22:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-07 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-04 19:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-04 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-04 23:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-05 0:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 1:23 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-05 2:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 16:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-05 19:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 19:12 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-05 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 20:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 21:55 ` Reiner Steib
2008-01-05 22:05 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-05 22:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 23:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 22:00 ` Bastien
2008-01-05 22:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 23:32 ` Bastien
2008-01-06 0:52 ` Bastien
2008-01-07 17:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 1:06 ` Bastien
2008-01-06 10:46 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 23:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-09 1:13 ` Leo
2008-01-09 1:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-09 1:28 ` Andrea Russo
2008-01-09 1:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-05 12:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-05 17:40 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-01-06 1:10 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-06 18:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 18:18 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-06 21:27 ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-06 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 6:56 ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-07 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 14:28 ` Bill Wohler
2008-01-10 4:11 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-01-05 22:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-05 22:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-05 23:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 23:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-06 17:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06 20:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 22:17 ` Bastien
2008-01-05 5:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 11:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-05 14:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 15:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-05 16:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 19:58 ` Chris Ball
2008-01-05 20:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-05 21:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 23:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-06 16:38 ` email-based development (was:: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker) John S. Yates, Jr.
2008-01-05 8:51 ` Let a QA department into the works Andreas Röhler
2008-01-05 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 8:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 11:15 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-06 19:52 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-05 21:39 ` Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Bastien
2008-01-05 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 15:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-06 10:47 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 18:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 21:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 23:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 23:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-06 1:03 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-06 2:08 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-06 4:08 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-06 10:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-06 11:22 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-06 13:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-06 11:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-06 15:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07 11:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 13:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-08 19:06 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-09 15:35 ` Bill Wohler
2008-01-06 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 5:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-07 14:40 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-01-10 4:23 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-01-10 6:46 ` Mark Linimon
2008-01-11 7:00 ` Bill Wohler
2008-01-11 15:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-11 20:42 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-01-11 21:25 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-11 22:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-01-11 23:14 ` Evans Winner
2008-01-13 8:35 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 18:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 20:02 ` Martin Geisler
2008-01-07 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 21:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
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