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: Bug trackers Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080218052546.GK13020@volo.donarmstrong.com> <20080218232829.GM5438@volo.donarmstrong.com> <20080219232732.GC18902@jax.donarmstrong.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203526009 25858 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 16:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Don Armstrong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 17:47:14 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 1JRs66-0003El-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:47:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs5b-00057c-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs3b-0003mv-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs3Z-0003lZ-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRs3Z-0003lV-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRs3Y-0002J1-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JRs3Y-0005ux-8c; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:44:28 -0500 In-reply-to: <20080219232732.GC18902@jax.donarmstrong.com> (message from Don Armstrong on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:27:32 -0800) 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:89705 Archived-At: Debbugs currently is based on the assumption that every bug is assigned to at least one package. In terms of a distribution, this makes perfect sense, but it's different for applications. When you're developing a single application like emacs, I'd imagine you'd separate bugs into "components" or similar of the application, like "gtk interface", "documentation", or "elisp" (as examples; you all'd come up with better ones.) Is it possible for all bugs to be initially assigned to "emacs" and for maintainers to move them subsequently into other categories?