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: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:50:16 -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> <87659wd44u.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87659wbl2q.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <20040613023944.GA13072@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087239150 1023 80.91.224.253 (14 Jun 2004 18:52:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:52:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmbarranquero@wke.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 14 20:52:21 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 1BZwZA-00011k-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:52:20 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZwZA-0001JE-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:52:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZwa4-0000AQ-JU for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZwYp-0007Jm-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZwYi-00075I-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZwYg-0006u0-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZwXB-00005l-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BZwXA-0005jM-Uj; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:50:17 -0400 Original-To: Oliver Scholz In-reply-to: (message from Oliver Scholz on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:29:16 +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:24961 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24961 Please bear with my ignorance, if I happen to say something stupid; but couldn't just Emacs talk to the bug tracking system directly so that a user has no need to start a browser? This does not solve the problem. The problem is that a web-based system requires a net connection. Using Emacs as the client rather than an ordinary browser might indeed be an improvement in such systems but it won't help those who have no net connection--such as me. I have decided that for tracking issues we should use a text file, not a complex system, and certainly not something web-based.