From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:30:10 +0900 Message-ID: <8763y7o719.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080105182456.GR30869@thyrsus.com> <20080105214810.GZ30869@thyrsus.com> <20080105233923.GH30869@thyrsus.com> <18304.10442.537860.246188@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87k5mnoge1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199597446 9942 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 05:30:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 05:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 06:30:57 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 1JBO60-0000X3-6S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:30:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBO5d-0003EJ-4F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBO5X-0003DE-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBO5V-0003BY-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBO5V-0003BQ-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBO5O-0003am-JG; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-100-219.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.100.219] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JBO5L-00064c-Ra; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:30:11 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A2A742FF7; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:30:10 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:14:07 +0200") Original-Lines: 21 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:86288 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Perhaps it's improved recently, but the last time I used the savannah >> bug tracker it was completely awful, and seemed to have no email >> support other than sending bug status changes and the like. > > I don't know about ``awful'' (you didn't say what was awful about it), > but at least as far as email gateway, the GNU Make project has it set > up and running: every bug report gets gatewayed into a mailing list, > and so does any comment filed with a bug report. Useful email support means supporing both submissions, modifications, and queries via email. [Supposedly recent versions of bugzilla support such, but I haven't used it.] -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal