From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug tracking Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:01:23 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040512103042.FB57.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040611122633.5F88.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <87wu2dqij4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <40CACF10.2050108@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087084924 28017 80.91.224.253 (13 Jun 2004 00:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 00:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, jmbarranquero@wke.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 02:01:55 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 1BZIRf-0007lr-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:01:55 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZIRf-0007mM-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:01:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZIST-0006en-GL for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZISH-0006dh-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZISF-0006cY-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZISE-0006cG-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZIR9-0005NE-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BZIR9-0003On-3Q; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:01:23 -0400 Original-To: Lars Hansen In-reply-to: <40CACF10.2050108@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:38:24 +0200) 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:24890 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24890 IMO database functionality is needed. I should be easy to select items having to do with a particular module/issuer/maintainer/priority/version of Emacs/OS It is easy enough to search a file. If this gets to be large, something is wrong. We're not planning to use this to track individual bugs, and aside from individual bugs, the number of issues cannot be too large. What you're proposing would be too costly to set up and maintain. Our sysadmins would have to do it. I can't agree to that. Also, I would be unable to access it. I usually do not have a net connection, and often don't even have the possibility of one. Therefore, I want this info to be kept in a file in the Emacs repository, so I will be able to look at it and edit it without a net connection. If you want to work on Emacs code to do more sophisticated searching of this file, please go ahead. That would be a modular improvement which would not impose any problems elsewhere.