From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unable to close a bug in the tracker. Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:10:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83fx66cvxa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87iqb5o7ie.fsf@red-bean.com> <7b501d5c1001140141i4de045bma15759d59e442dfe@mail.gmail.com> <7b501d5c1001152002q1ac6a83fheb2e439fa859ae3a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263629450 21952 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2010 08:10:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 16 09:10:42 2010 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 1NW3k2-0001dn-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:10:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NW3k3-00035X-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NW3jW-0002ol-Nk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NW3jS-0002nE-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41603 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NW3jS-0002n9-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:64602) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NW3jL-0003iq-2L; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:09:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NW3jK-0000et-3K; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KWB00F00YGUGA00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:09:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.60.183]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KWB00ELOYNPSJ20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:09:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <7b501d5c1001152002q1ac6a83fheb2e439fa859ae3a@mail.gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:120092 Archived-At: > From: Deniz Dogan > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:02:28 +0100 > Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > 2010/1/15 Richard Stallman : > > =A0 =A0What _really_ bothers me about this bug tracking system (a= nd I guess > > =A0 =A0I'm going out on a limb here) is that _some_ people are so= stuck on > > =A0 =A0reading/adding/commenting on bugs using e-mail that A LOT = of other > > =A0 =A0potential contributors to Emacs get sort of left out. > > > > We decided not to leave ourselves out. > > >=20 > By "we", do you mean the few that do not use a web browser today? I= 'm > sure the majority of all Emacs developers and/or contributors would > prefer to have a web interface instead of an e-mail interface if th= ey > had to choose between only one of them. Don't be sure without a poll. The result might surprise you.