Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> 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.
>>
>> Yes it looks like Bugzilla is far superior.  I know that this has also been
>> suggested before, and I'm trying not to go round in circles, but I notice now
>> that GCC use their mailing list gcc-bugs for their Bugzilla bug-tracking
>> system.  If we set Emacs up similarly, then presumably Richard (and others)
>> could use e-mail as before, while those that want to could submit bug reports
>> through Bugzilla.
>
> If Savannah's bug report system is completely awful and Bugzilla is far
> superior, then this would seem like something that would warrant
> changing Savannah policies or options instead of just special-casing
> Emacs.

That's true, but I don't think Bugzilla is superior enough to warrant
that. Some might argue it isn't even better.

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