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Re: The bug tracker...again
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Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
Re: The bug tracker...again |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:54:47 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not sure if Richard meant email per se, or merely that bug-reporting
> must be possible from within Emacs, i.e., without switching to a
> separate web-browsing program.
>
>I meant email, strictly and literally.
>
> If that's the *real* requirement, then any bug tracker with a decent
> network API would probably work, because we could teach Emacs to speak
> that API for reporting new bugs.
>
>It is fine if such an interface exists, but it does not substitute
>for access by email.
Thanks. I realized later you did mean it literally. (Stephen Turnbull
pointed out to me that email's well-debugged offline queueing mechanism
is the important thing here, not its user interface.)
Many bug trackers have this, nowadays, anyway. Redmine is one such:
https://we.riseup.net/cgdev/using-email-with-redmine
Obviously, if a bug tracker supports email intake and outflow, then
that's an API of sorts, so Emacs can provide a non-email form-based way
for users to report bugs, and if absolutely necessary convert that to an
email. But it's better to use a real network API if available -- then
the user can get real-time confirmation of the bug identifier, etc.
This is something debbugs does not do, AFAIK.
-Karl
- Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, (continued)
- Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/19
- Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, Glenn Morris, 2011/08/19
- Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/20
- Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/20
- Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, Glenn Morris, 2011/08/20
- Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/22
- The bug tracker...again (was: Fixing C-x DEL bug), Deniz Dogan, 2011/08/22
- Re: The bug tracker...again, Glenn Morris, 2011/08/22
- Re: The bug tracker...again, Karl Fogel, 2011/08/22
- Re: The bug tracker...again, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/23
- Re: The bug tracker...again,
Karl Fogel <=
- Re: The bug tracker...again, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/23
Re: Fixing C-x DEL bug, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/08/19