From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug trackers Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:09:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080218052546.GK13020@volo.donarmstrong.com> <20080218232829.GM5438@volo.donarmstrong.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203462642 22630 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2008 23:10:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Don Armstrong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 00:11:06 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 1JRbc7-0000aF-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:11:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRbbd-0005TD-4h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:10:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRbaw-0004he-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRbaw-0004h6-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRbav-0004go-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRbav-0005m7-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JRbav-0001bq-4r; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:09:49 -0500 In-reply-to: <20080218232829.GM5438@volo.donarmstrong.com> (message from Don Armstrong on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:28:29 -0800) 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:89613 Archived-At: The main issue is that it's set up right now for distributions, where you have thousands of packages and developers all working on their own separate little bits of the system and only release managers care about everything together. Yes, that is true. What I kind of imagine is that bits of emacs which are relatively separate would end up with their own "package" and this mailing list (or the people responsible?) would be primarily tasked with fixing and resolving them. The issue here is to consider using a bug tracker. To change the way we package Emacs would be a completely different issue (and I don't think we should do so). What leads you to raise the question of packaging in relation to using a bug tracker?