From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:20:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <478010B6.2030200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lk73zxe9.fsf@telefonica.net>
Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>>> I was thinking about this possibility and concluded that it is not
>>> possible to build a decent bug-tracking system using only a VCS. The
>>> reason is the importance of the user interface, which must be open to
>>> everybody, not only for the committers, as PROBLEMS and TODO are now,
>>> thus effectively dissuading possible contributions from the outside.
>> OK, VCS access IN ADDITION TO web access. How about that?
>
> Others just proposed such a system. I'm skeptical about it. So far, it
> seems quite limiting and for a good reason:
I do not get your point here. Can you explain why you are skeptical and
why you think it would be limiting in another way?
>>> Furthermore, a bug-tracking system needs a database and a VCS is not
>>> good at that.
>> That is a good argument for staying with an email based system. ;-(
>> What's the point of a bug system if you have to be online to use it? It
>> kind of cancels out the benefit of a dVCS for our other files.
>>
>> Are you telling me I won't be able to grep a bug-tracking database? If
>> I'm using such a database, I want instant response when I press <CR> to
>> look at an item. I want to be able to do M-x occur (or the like) on it,
>> without going through some ghastly GUI interface. I want regexp
>> searching, filtering with a "command line"-like interface (e.g., like
>> mutt has), and so on. And I want the database on my own hard disk, for
>> speed and flexibility.
>
> You can request a plain-text export of the database.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-04 16:44 Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-04 17:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-04 18:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-04 18:38 ` Gianluca Della Vedova
2008-01-05 14:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 18:50 ` Gianluca Della Vedova
2008-01-05 19:51 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-05 19:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 20:13 ` Sven Joachim
2008-01-05 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-06 10:47 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 22:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 18:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 19:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 22:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-07 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-04 19:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-04 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-01-04 23:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-05 0:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 1:23 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-05 2:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 16:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-05 19:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 19:12 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-05 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 20:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 21:55 ` Reiner Steib
2008-01-05 22:05 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-05 22:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 23:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 22:00 ` Bastien
2008-01-05 22:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 23:32 ` Bastien
2008-01-06 0:52 ` Bastien
2008-01-07 17:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 1:06 ` Bastien
2008-01-06 10:46 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 23:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-09 1:13 ` Leo
2008-01-09 1:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-09 1:28 ` Andrea Russo
2008-01-09 1:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-05 12:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-05 17:40 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-01-06 1:10 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-06 18:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 18:18 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-06 21:27 ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-06 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 6:56 ` Jan Djärv
2008-01-07 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 14:28 ` Bill Wohler
2008-01-10 4:11 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-01-05 22:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-05 22:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-05 23:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-05 23:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-01-06 17:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06 20:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-06 22:17 ` Bastien
2008-01-05 5:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 11:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-05 14:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 15:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-05 16:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 19:58 ` Chris Ball
2008-01-05 20:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-05 21:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 23:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-06 16:38 ` email-based development (was:: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker) John S. Yates, Jr.
2008-01-05 8:51 ` Let a QA department into the works Andreas Röhler
2008-01-05 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 8:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 11:15 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-06 19:52 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-05 21:39 ` Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Bastien
2008-01-05 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 15:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-06 10:47 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 18:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 21:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 23:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 23:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-06 1:03 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-06 2:08 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-06 4:08 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-06 10:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-06 11:22 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-06 13:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-06 11:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-06 15:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07 11:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 13:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-08 19:06 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-09 15:35 ` Bill Wohler
2008-01-06 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 5:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-07 14:40 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-01-10 4:23 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-01-10 6:46 ` Mark Linimon
2008-01-11 7:00 ` Bill Wohler
2008-01-11 15:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-01-11 20:42 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-01-11 21:25 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-11 22:41 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-11 23:14 ` Evans Winner
2008-01-13 8:35 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 18:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 20:02 ` Martin Geisler
2008-01-07 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 21:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
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