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Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:15:00 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> 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.
I think you're confusing things a little: the database should be inside
a file like TODO which is itself managed via a VCS (actually the file
needs to be alongside the rest of the code). This way when we merge the
unicode branch into the trunk (for instance), the unicode-branch bugs
database will "automatically" get merged into the trunk's bugs database.
Stefan
- 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, 2008/01/06
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker,
Stefan Monnier <=
- 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