From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug tracking Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:04:57 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6434fd6.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <863c4zy8mt.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> <20040613163124.4E4E.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 1087142885 23386 80.91.224.253 (13 Jun 2004 16:08:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 18:07:59 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 1BZXWZ-0001NP-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:07:59 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZXWZ-00046b-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:07:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZXXQ-0005Bc-5i for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZXX9-0004xM-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZXX7-0004wr-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZXX7-0004wo-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZXW7-0000pc-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-41-138-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.41.138]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4837A11DC0D; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: <20040613163124.4E4E.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:34:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:24926 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24926 Juanma Barranquero writes: > When I started the thread, I was talking mainly about exactly *that*; > it's more difficult to manage open bugs that ideas for new developments > or things to finish I agree. It's a pity so many bug reports are already lost in bug-gnu-emacs archives without being registered and categorized by their severity and status. > (etc/TODO could be used for that, even if it isn't right now). As I see it, the purpose of etc/TODO is to manage ideas rather than open bugs. Open bugs could be placed to a separate file. So a set of database text files might contain only four files: etc/BUGS etc/TODO etc/DONE etc/NEWS That's all that's needed for the simplest issue tracker. Another question is how to add new bug reports to the BUGS file. I think this is the task of Emacs developers to register bug reports from bug-gnu-emacs in the BUGS file, because usually Emacs users who report bugs on bug-gnu-emacs can't assign right categories and severity levels to reported bugs. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/