From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug tracking (was: new *Help* argument highlighting) Date: 13 Jun 2004 11:06:02 +0200 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087117598 10302 80.91.224.253 (13 Jun 2004 09:06:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, Juanma Barranquero , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 11:06:31 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 1BZQwh-0004V9-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZQwh-0006uH-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQxW-0004MC-SJ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQxU-0004M3-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQxU-0004Lr-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZQxU-0004Lh-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZQwN-0004MT-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZQwG-0003tn-Uf; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:06:05 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20040613023944.GA13072@fencepost> Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:24912 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24912 Miles Bader writes: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:03:25PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote: > > While the tracker does not accept input via email, it does send > > *out* an email (to a list) whenever a change is made to an issue. > > This is vital functionality, of course. You can read email to > > follow what's going on with bugs, then visit the web forms only > > when you need to make a comment or whatever. > > > > (Of course, taking input via email would be even nicer.) > > It's critical, IMO -- my experience of using mozilla and savannah's > bug tracker is that the annoyance of having to go to the web site > and muddle through the forms significantly decreased the likelihood > that I would bother (it was fine the first N times, but after a > while I started to dread it). Agreed. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum