From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unable to close a bug in the tracker. Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:34 -0500 Message-ID: <87ockwhh21.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87iqb5o7ie.fsf@red-bean.com> <3k6375fb19.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vdf4lu4k.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263481714 16020 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2010 15:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 16:08:27 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 1NVRJ8-0001hZ-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:08:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42090 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVRJ9-0002zK-Lc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:08:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVR6u-0005Gc-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVR6q-0005EC-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59691 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVR6p-0005E5-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po39.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.100]:59625) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVR6n-0005EN-Gw; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:37 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-58-201-143.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.58.201.143]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po39.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o0EEtY7W029656 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:35 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D033C05D; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:55:34 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <87vdf4lu4k.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:59:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:119992 Archived-At: Karl Fogel writes: > Do we have general agreement here that our bug tracker would be better > if it *did* have a web UI that allowed commenting and state-changing? > I.e., the lack of these features is not considered a feature, right? It's probably not difficult to allow commenting from the web. On the bug pages, we can just insert a "mailto" link after each comment, with the appropriate address and subject set up. I'm a leery of getting us a full-fledged user-registration+web-forms type solution. We currently have a well-defined pathway for bug information, which works pretty well (e.g. it catches spam mostly correctly), and it would be nice not to deviate too much from it.