From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:08:06 +0900 Message-ID: <87k5mnoge1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080105182456.GR30869@thyrsus.com> <20080105214810.GZ30869@thyrsus.com> <20080105233923.GH30869@thyrsus.com> <18304.10442.537860.246188@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199585358 18318 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 02:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, esr@snark.thyrsus.com, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 03:09:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBKxE-0008Bx-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:09:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBKws-00015Q-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBKwo-00015L-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBKwn-000158-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBKwn-000155-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBKwf-0006ac-WF; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:09:02 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-100-219.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.100.219] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JBKvn-0008LH-KT; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:08:07 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6D5DE2FF7; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:08:06 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <18304.10442.537860.246188@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:03:06 +1300") Original-Lines: 17 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86278 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > > First step: activate the default Savannah issue tracker for the project and > > test it. Might be that one is good enough; I'll need to check things like > > whether reports can be gated to emacs-bugs, and how much work it takes > > to be able to do transactions from within Emacs. > > I have proposed this before but without much success: Perhaps it's improved recently, but the last time I used the savannah bug tracker it was completely awful, and seemed to have no email support other than sending bug status changes and the like. -Miles -- We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde