RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs)

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

<snip>

We agree that it would be good if Emacs were improved in some of the areas you
mentioned.

> PS - Does emacs have a feature request and bug reporting system
> like bugzilla yet?  I heard rumors that it might be getting one.  With
> respect to this discussion, it would be nice if when emacs chokes
> during a demonstration of its features, I could point to the bugzilla
> page that shows the problem has been reported and is being
> worked on

Yes, there is a bug and enhancement-request reporting system, of sorts.

You can file a bug using `M-x report-emacs-bug' or (menu) Help > Send Bug
Report.
The Emacs manual (`C-h r'), node `Bugs'.

You can examine existing bug reports and their status at the bug-report Web
site:
http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=emacs

This system is what it is. If you have suggestions for improving it, I believe
that the contact mail address for that is bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.

> and is a blocker for the release of version x.y which
> is scheduled to be release on such and such a date.

You can see the assessed severity of reported bugs. But Emacs releases under
development generally do not have a planned release date until late in the
development cycle.

I'm not an authority on this - someone please correct me if some of the above
info is not correct.