From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: debbugs tracker builds character Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:43:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87twg2g86g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83eg76n5h5.fsf@gnu.org> <87y45eeoor.fsf@lifelogs.com> <577D42BB.1020500@cs.ucla.edu> <87oa694rfw.fsf@russet.org.uk> <837fcxlbay.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1d2wg5.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83eg75jk5h.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1cb6p0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oa5sa176.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <874m7kmkcm.fsf@gmx.de> <87zipc8gx2.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469047558 27575 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2016 20:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 20:45:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 20 22:45:49 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bPyNJ-0007Km-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:45:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPyNI-0000Pu-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPyMi-0000Pj-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPyMd-0005a9-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41074) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPyMd-0005Z5-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bPyMa-0006h9-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:45:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.156.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VxrjRaNGHQ4UFnMIdGsks9KYkjg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205924 Archived-At: >> Yes, I agree that this is the crucial point. That's my motivation for >> developing BugIt (https://gitlab.com/monnier/bugit). > IMHO it's not that important a goal. The old-timers have lived without it > for a while, and the youngsters have no idea that it's something to > be desired. The more I use BugIt, the more I find it important to be able to query the bug database while offline. Being able to queue actions so they're executed when I get online is not too terrible, but it's not really good enough. Stefan PS: Of course, I'm not representative because I avoid cell-phone technology, so I'm often offline.