From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Database? Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:53:40 +1300 Message-ID: <17720.32900.379671.719138@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <17717.20433.183356.106695@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87odsameu4.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <17717.45053.900033.152204@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17718.15394.542955.49073@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17719.14222.492798.684319@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161368819 24311 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2006 18:26:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 20 20:26:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gaz51-00069F-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:26:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gaz51-0000Ar-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GapFP-0005tP-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GapFN-0005qz-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GapFN-0005qc-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GapFK-0004V9-IW; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-124-174.snap.net.nz [202.124.124.174]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id F130C7BBEB1; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:56:42 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id D97D2BE453; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:53:41 +1300 (NZDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.27 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:60946 Archived-At: > Only significant bugs that can't be immediately fixed need to be entered, > although it wouldn't matter if others were too as they can easily be closed. > > I agree that "enter bugs if not fixed immediately" would give results, > but it still takes work. Who wants to do this work? Presumably whoever is interested in seeing the bug fixed, the original poster, a developer who can't see a fix, I don't know. > You could just see it as an additional tool. As a start why not just > ask the Savannah Hackers to turn on the bug tracker for Emacs? Then > people who want to use it could file bugs there, and you could keep your > own record in FOR-RELEASE. > > This much would be easy to do. Would this result in having some bugs > in the bug tracker and other bugs reported on bug-gnu-emacs? > > If we did not systematically enter the emailed bug reports into the > bug tracker, would confusion result? These questions can only be answered by trying a tracker out. I can only say in GDB it helps me find (and fix) old bugs that I probably wouldn't know about through the archives. It's now over five years since the last (mainline) release. I think a tracker will help with the release cycle. If you think Emacs should be bug free no matter how long it takes to make a release, then I guess a tracker may not be of much use. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob