From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:20:35 -0800 Message-ID: <002201c961fe$1b21d7c0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <003101c954de$f95a3000$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi> <20081215210907.GB3848@groll.co.za> <00aa01c95f00$fc27b830$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <006f01c96139$2c2da9b0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229707304 30289 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2008 17:21:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'David L'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 19 18:22:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDj3S-0006bk-GO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:22:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDj2D-0001RU-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:21:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDj1q-0001RM-LQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDj1o-0001RA-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:20:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49234 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDj1n-0001R7-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:21630 helo=rgminet11.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDj1n-0001PK-Ii for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:20:43 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by rgminet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBJHLpYF007787 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:21:53 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt704.oracle.com (acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBJHL4YS014178; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:21:05 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.135.148) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:20:35 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Aclh+nzInvyLpJiuQbSdXcTX8kyUGgAAU43g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010202.494BD7E5.0134:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60859 Archived-At: 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.