From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:29:30 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080107132930.GH9920@thyrsus.com> References: <20080105214810.GZ30869@thyrsus.com> <20080105233923.GH30869@thyrsus.com> <18304.10442.537860.246188@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87k5mnoge1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <18304.21595.549190.232362@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85bq7zjjgb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080106155950.GV30869@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199712593 29431 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 13:29:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 14:30:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBs39-00031l-IT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:29:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBs2m-0000XP-CO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:29:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBs2h-0000VK-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBs2h-0000V1-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBs2g-0000Uy-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:29:26 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBs2T-0007QE-O8; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 56F2441C316; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:29:30 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:86474 Archived-At: Richard Stallman : > Agreed. That would have the advantage of lowering the Savannah admins' > maintainance load after the transition. > > If Bugzilla is superior, it would provide an advantage to the projects > hosted on Savannah. But how would installing Bugzilla on Savannah > reduce the Savannah admins' maintainance load? I would like to > understand this, because maybe it will be an argument I should > present. Nothing complicated. I just meant that if the Savannah admins switched to Bugzilla globally rather than locally for Emacs, they wouldn't have to administer two different trackers down the road. -- Eric S. Raymond