From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug tracking Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:37:05 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wu2dqij4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <20040512103042.FB57.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040611122633.5F88.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087029645 32016 80.91.224.253 (12 Jun 2004 08:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 12 10:40:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZ447-0003bC-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZ447-0003wP-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ44u-0005Q9-1d for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ44U-0005KJ-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ44S-0005Iq-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ44S-0005Ib-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.19] (helo=spoon.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZ43c-0004pT-H8; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 04:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-39-208-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.39.208]) by spoon.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B87B13D8FB; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24864 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24864 Richard Stallman writes: > All we need is a file we can edit. We can keep it in /etc using CVS > and edit it with Emacs. This is the most simple and flexible solution! Such file could be in the mail-like format with relevant field names that comprise the database of bug reports, todo items and news (the latter actually would be either a bug report or a todo item with `Completed' status). An example of a record for such database: Summary: Do this and that Category: Custom Priority: High Status: Open Submitted: J. Random Hacker Assigned: J. Random Hacker Long multi-line description. Long multi-line description. Long multi-line description. ^L "Issue trackers" written in a plain text file have many advantages: it can be edited directly in Emacs, all changes can be easily tracked by developers after committing this file to CVS, it allows arbitrary text-processing operations on a file... -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/