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Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker
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Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:57:43 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>:
> > There's emacs-bug to be hacked. And one of our listmembers has
> > already noted that the Debian tracker can be driven by email.
>
> What is "emacs-bug"? I think I'm missing some context somewhere.
Perhaps I have the name wrong, but I believe there is an Emacs mode
specifically for generating bug reports to be mailed in. I think
I used it once.
> The best (proprietary) bug tracker I ever used had fields only for things
> like person creating the entry, status (open/fixed/rejected), customer,
> severity, urgency. Then it had free text areas for describing the bug.
That's about where the Wesnoth and Ubuntu trackers are. The Wesnoth one
does have a "platform" field for specifying your OS, but that's
reasonable given that we do both Mac and Windows ports.
> Fair response. ;-) But the base system has to be one that allows
> appropriate access.
This is *not difficult*. There's not even any need to postulate other than
HTTP access to do it, because we have w3m.
If all else fails, we write a mode that uses w3m to presents a bug-entry or
query form and then does a transaction with the bug-tracker CGI. I'll
bet either you or I could throw that together in a few hours' work.
> I wasn't very clear, there. Of course users need web forms, and they
> will manipulate the database directly. But why can't we have VCS
> updating, too? This will allow RMS and others to work offline, a very
> desirable thing.
A VCS-based solution would be more complicated than necessary. Easier
just to write a w3m-based client that pulls a copy of the entire bug
database out of the tracker.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, (continued)
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/01/06
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/06
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/01/06
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Bastien, 2008/01/06
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/01/05
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Chris Ball, 2008/01/05
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/01/05
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/01/05
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/01/05
email-based development (was:: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker), John S. Yates, Jr., 2008/01/06
Let a QA department into the works, Andreas Röhler, 2008/01/05