From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:51:56 +0100 Message-ID: <477FA79C.8030606@gmail.com> References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080104232514.GB2735@muc.de> <20080105052007.GA27075@thyrsus.com> <20080105111720.GA3014@muc.de> <20080105145743.GH30869@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199548358 10412 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 15:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Emacs Devel" To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 16:52:59 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 1JBBKP-00030u-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:52:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBK3-0005Yx-1t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBJz-0005Wu-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBJw-0005TU-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBBJw-0005TI-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:52:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBBJw-0001lc-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:52:24 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:59517 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBBJs-0003db-4V; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:52:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <20080105145743.GH30869@thyrsus.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080104-0, 2008-01-04), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JBBJs-0003db-4V. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JBBJs-0003db-4V fd4afb703a3e63ee336f4940633e4021 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:86185 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond wrote: >> I wasn't very clear, there. Of course users need web forms, and they >> will manipulate the database directly. But why can't we have VCS >> updating, too? This will allow RMS and others to work offline, a very >> desirable thing. > > A VCS-based solution would be more complicated than necessary. Easier > just to write a w3m-based client that pulls a copy of the entire bug > database out of the tracker. Just a detail and nothing to discuss now: w3m is not available everywhere. Maybe the url libraries in Emacs can be used though.