From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:29:48 +0000 (UTC) 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> <87pt838qz7.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087169416 30123 80.91.224.253 (13 Jun 2004 23:30:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:30:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 14 01:30:08 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 1BZeQS-0002mp-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:30:08 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZeQR-0001wI-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:30:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZeRJ-0000Gy-HG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZeRE-0000GC-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZeRA-0000EQ-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZeRA-0000E2-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZeQA-0004kt-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:29:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87pt838qz7.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on 13 Jun 2004 09:36:28 -0500) 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:24939 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24939 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > No, that does not follow. People outside the web-based system may end > up doing less, because they become afraid that their work will > duplicate others and they do not want to waste their time. kfogel@red-bean.com asked Why would those people not worry that their efforts are duplicated right now? Because right now people expect to make duplicate reports, and then, usually, only one person works on the problem. When reporting and fixing are combined in a `fast' group, then those in the `slow' group may not bother either to report or to volunteer to do something. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises As I slowly update it, bob@rattlesnake.com I rewrite a "What's New" segment for http://www.rattlesnake.com