From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Choice of bug tracker Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:52:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87il9kksqz.fsf@dfreeman.email> <87wmxj27fn.fsf@dfreeman.email> <831qfrptiq.fsf@gnu.org> <57429221-d9be-5791-e975-b3539905e2f6@gutov.dev> <83a5udlj47.fsf@gnu.org> <87a5udk1co.fsf@posteo.net> <835y51kslv.fsf@gnu.org> <7a82c524-1aa1-e755-e377-673ebb107a44@gutov.dev> <83r0nok8s4.fsf@gnu.org> <83ledwk4xi.fsf@gnu.org> <76ecf629-a41a-f6e4-f661-2ef926326d6c@gutov.dev> <83zg2cias7.fsf@gnu.org> <83pm37ie54.fsf@gnu.org> <831qfmhyx3.fsf@gnu.org> <87pm36kqlg.fsf@posteo.net> <87il8yuk6q.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ttsfts92.fsf@localhost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8006"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: brickviking Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 02 03:53:14 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qcFp3-0001pg-TC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2023 03:53:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcFoA-0006Q8-Px; Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcFo8-0006OU-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcFo8-0000OJ-M5; Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:52:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=Mp0nZzXk20wDAFeEw3cJ2OrDUDcx6ytRZ22bKJce+rQ=; b=UoqxMBLthNYx CkrWAl+7Nbq34fCPNWCIHAsCaCLefmrop+0/6B4h59UPv8h9NsXLbcRmrF59ndyPOzw3m9xzV+jku 9rJv9V/CzhqTgAQpQM0tBDWTzQMIn4bACQWG5ytSHzKIhjsyj8yefbYo11qpjMyGA0DPKb24iZJBH azwljINnLnLWHVKGJFa8rZgGUXRD3/qcsNWVNCDP9L1Fq5CzaxfqaVXEB0dOT1wqHx87AnbhpHCQH FR/1VEjNtqDLc3SbKe+ykVKQsczuZbD5SidOW6ouNrJbq8X+Tx6pvprAI761M+uoYXQSNmqZF8DNG rMWcCj+uIUPNHYEJO19Xhg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcFo8-0000LH-4T; Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:52:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from brickviking on Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:44:01 +1200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:309844 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > What if there was a hypothetical bug report that actually had a multiple > number of things to address, but was only being reported under the original > "bug" that the user reported on? That'd still be a good reason to be able > to discuss #bugnum, #bugnum-feature1, #bugnum-feature2 and so on. I'm > assuming that this is what debbugs is "discouraging"? That suggests to me we would want a feature to split one bug report ticket into multiple entirely separate tickets. Or something that could give the same results in practice. That would be a lot easier to add than a way to subdivide one ticket while keeping it somehow as one ticket. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)