From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:48:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080104232514.GB2735@muc.de> <87r6gxoyjv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4pds0zz4.fsf@telefonica.net> <858x34kjxe.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199573367 20831 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 22:49:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:49:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 23:49:48 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 1JBHpe-0004LO-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHpF-00089v-M7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHpB-000890-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHp6-00087f-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHp6-00087c-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBHp4-0001NQ-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHoq-0000qq-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:48:44 +0000 Original-Received: from 169.red-81-35-77.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([81.35.77.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:48:44 +0000 Original-Received: from ofv by 169.red-81-35-77.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:48:44 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.red-81-35-77.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mWwVoZMQxDJihqzTT8L1WYz85Co= 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:86250 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: [snip] > Introducing a new dependency for working is a risk. If people stop > reporting bugs in the current way, one has to change the workflow of > the potential bugfixers. Not all of them will do this. If stuff gets > stuck, one can't easily return to the old way of doing things since a > different report-emacs-bug would already be out in the wild. At least with the method I mentioned elsewhere, the only change to report-emacs-bug is the disposition of the autogenerated text. It would be sent to emacs-bugs as it is today. There, the bug-tracker automatically would create the report and associate to it all ongoing mail discussion and VCS activity. -- Oscar