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Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:13:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (windows-nt) |
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>>>> I was thinking about this possibility and concluded that it is not
>>>> possible to build a decent bug-tracking system using only a VCS. The
>>>> reason is the importance of the user interface, which must be open to
>>>> everybody, not only for the committers, as PROBLEMS and TODO are now,
>>>> thus effectively dissuading possible contributions from the outside.
>>> OK, VCS access IN ADDITION TO web access. How about that?
>>
>> Others just proposed such a system. I'm skeptical about it. So far, it
>> seems quite limiting and for a good reason:
>
> I do not get your point here. Can you explain why you are skeptical
> and why you think it would be limiting in another way?
Because of this:
>>>> Furthermore, a bug-tracking system needs a database and a VCS is not
>>>> good at that.
A VCS provides a filesystem to work on, not a database.
A bug tracker based on a VCS wouldn't provide more that what we can
achieve now with FOR-RELEASE, TODO, etc.
--
Oscar
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, (continued)
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Bill Wohler, 2008/01/07
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Giorgos Keramidas, 2008/01/09
- 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 <=
- 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