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 23:39:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <200801041833.37632.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199572861 19507 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 22:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 23:41:22 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 1JBHhX-0002Fu-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:41:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHh1-0006Te-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHgx-0006T7-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:40:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHgt-0006S1-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:40:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHgt-0006Ry-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:40:31 -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 1JBHgo-00008X-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:40:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHgN-0000UN-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:39:59 +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 22:39:59 +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 22:39:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 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:VMSqFnHNmyro5/anFq8ZhwPzsg4= 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:86247 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > If we are to use a bug tracker, it must allow people to do everything > thru email if they wish to, and must make that mode convenient. I don't know what ESR plans to do, but speaking from my technical knowledge about the system I use: people would use email by default for altering bug reports. You could add comentaries, assign owners, close, and reopen them. The only requisite is that your e-mail message should carry a prominent, non-ambiguous command and a reference to the bug report. This is usually a number plus some marker, such as #1341. Optionally, people could use email for creating bug reports too, through report-emacs-bug. Those email reports that does not conform to the format generated by report-emacs-bug would require human intervention to register them. I volunteer to do that. For reading them, you either use the web interface or ask the system for a plain text version of the report(s) you want. -- Oscar