From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:09:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <200801041833.37632.andreas.roehler@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199643338 313 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 18:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 19:15:59 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 1JBa2P-0001m8-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:15:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBa22-0003R2-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBZwe-0006uK-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:10:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBZwa-0006r3-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:09:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBZwa-0006qx-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBZwa-00014B-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBZwZ-0001tO-LT; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:09:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:39:51 +0100) 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:86363 Archived-At: I don't know what ESR plans to do, but speaking from my technical knowledge about the system I use: people would use email by default for altering bug reports. You could add comentaries, assign owners, close, and reopen them. The only requisite is that your e-mail message should carry a prominent, non-ambiguous command and a reference to the bug report. This is usually a number plus some marker, such as #1341. That sounds ok, so far. Can you show me what a couple of these messages look like? Also, what is the name of this bug tracker? We need to think about which one to use. We can't just rush to enable _any old_ bug tracker.