From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug Database?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:40:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umz7qovm7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pscm314g.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:31:59 +0900)
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:31:59 +0900
>
> While it's nice to have the _ability_ to submit bugs via the web (casual
> users might find it easier to deal with such an interface), I think
> email reporting is mandatory. It's also nice to have something like
> debian's "reportbug" program, which uses a simple UI on the user's
> machine to prompt for details, but sends email to actually report the
> bug. Basically, choice is good.
>
> Several reasons for this:
>
> (1) Email is available in situations where web access is not (the
> reverse is true too of course: again, choice is good).
This goes both ways, as you say.
> (2) Typical web bug-tracker interfaces are completely awful (bugzilla,
> I'm looking at you...)
I was suggesting a specific interface: the Savannah bug tracker. I
think its interface is reasonable, please take a look.
> (3) Many bugs involve "conversations", with back-and-forth between
> developers (often more than one) and bug reports. Web-only
> interfaces like bugzilla make this very awkward -- while it wil
> _send_ email to indicate a new response in "the conversation" about
> a bug, one must then go to the web page and fill in a form to reply!
> The natural thing, simply replying (to the email'd report) via one's
> mail client, isn't supported!
I don't see this as such a disadvantage: if you do both through Emacs,
why does it matter?
Anyway, while there are disadvantages to what I suggested, there's one
very significant advantage: we can use the Savannah bug tracking
interface, which is already used by quite a few projects and is
maintained by the FSF personnel. The other solutions will require us
to invent everything and will put a much more serious burden on the
Emacs maintenance team. What if whoever volunteers for this job will
some day become unavailable? A bug-tracking system is not something
that we can afford to be down.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-21 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-17 21:49 Bug Database? Nick Roberts
2006-10-17 23:17 ` David Reitter
2006-10-18 4:24 ` Chong Yidong
2006-10-18 4:39 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-18 6:22 ` Jan Djärv
2006-10-18 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-18 10:41 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-18 13:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-19 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-19 7:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-19 8:50 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-20 6:06 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-20 10:06 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-21 2:02 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-20 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-20 10:26 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-20 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-21 12:04 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-21 1:31 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-21 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-10-21 12:48 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-22 16:36 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-21 9:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-21 12:50 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-21 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-21 18:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-23 5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-23 8:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-23 18:38 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-23 12:02 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2006-10-24 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-21 12:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-18 14:37 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-18 15:20 ` joakim
2006-10-18 16:41 ` Emacs-based web browser (was Re: Bug Database?) Magnus Henoch
2006-10-18 17:26 ` Emacs-based web browser Stefan Monnier
2006-10-18 17:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-18 18:02 ` Magnus Henoch
2006-10-19 6:41 ` Bug Database? Richard Stallman
2006-10-19 8:30 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-20 6:06 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-20 7:53 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-20 7:45 ` Yavor Doganov
2006-10-23 10:45 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-10-20 22:10 ` Michael Olson
2006-10-18 10:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-18 14:47 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-19 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-19 7:04 ` Frank Schmitt
2006-10-19 9:26 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-19 10:07 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-19 11:46 ` Frank Schmitt
2006-10-19 12:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-19 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-20 8:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-20 9:00 ` Nick Roberts
2006-10-20 12:01 ` Frank Schmitt
2006-10-20 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-21 1:08 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-20 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-20 21:00 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-21 1:21 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-20 2:19 ` Miles Bader
2006-10-21 0:31 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-10-20 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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