From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John S. Yates, Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: email-based development (was:: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:38:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080104232514.GB2735@muc.de> <20080105052007.GA27075@thyrsus.com> <20080105111720.GA3014@muc.de> <20080105145743.GH30869@thyrsus.com> <86prwg9h9m.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199634400 4048 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 15:46:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:46:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie To: Chris Ball Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 16:47:01 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 1JBXiE-0000BZ-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:46:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBXhr-0004Eh-KA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBXhn-0004EM-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBXhm-0004E2-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBXhm-0004Dz-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:46:30 -0500 Original-Received: from qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.64]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBXhm-0002fO-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:46:30 -0500 Original-Received: from OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.19]) by QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Zqvu1Y0030QuhwU0502Y00; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:46:26 +0000 Original-Received: from mail.yates-sheets.org ([24.218.183.253]) by OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ZrmE1Y0025USsNo3N00000; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:46:15 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=5mi4S4p3D6IA:10 a=vL1ygq2FAAAA:8 a=fxJcL_dCAAAA:8 a=FcT6ZEuMAAAA:8 a=danhDmx_AAAA:8 a=yYn4sVnEudcqQ4QwenIA:9 a=TCkl6t6YphEPDHuchBl2mnU3JUMA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Original-Received: from [10.1.1.12] by mail (Axigen) with ESMTPA id 30578F; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:39:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86prwg9h9m.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:86334 Archived-At: On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:58:13 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > One such bugtracker is "Bugs Everywhere": > > http://www.panoramicfeedback.com/opensource/index.html BugEverywhere is the work of Aaron Bentley, a member of the bzr development team. Bzr has a very email-centric workflow that should be studied if only to get a sense of what is possible. The project shares some of the attributes that ESR has advocated but with a greater emphasis on a formalized email-based workflow: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ianc/doc/en/developer-guide/HACKING.html Some tooling links: http://code.aaronbentley.com/bundlebuggy/ https://launchpad.net/pqm /john