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Re: Futile bug reports?
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Peter S Galbraith |
Subject: |
Re: Futile bug reports? |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:13:41 -0400 |
"Eli Zaretskii" wrote:
> > From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=
> > I wonder if it makes sense to use something like the Debian people
> > use? They have an email interface to their system, so the existing
> > M-x report-emacs-bug RET machinery could be kept up.
>
> The part I'm worried about is the burden on the maintainers to update
> the bug-tracker's info about the bug status. The interface doesn't
> matter: it's mostly manual labor, one way or the other.
Sending a one-line email to number-done@bugs.debian.org is quick
and easy, or even easier is closing a bunch of bugs with a single
email to control@bugs.debian.org like so:
close 100000
close 57005
close 101001
tags 101056 unreproducible
It's very easy.
> Without status being updated on a timely basis, there's not much sense
> in setting up the bug-tracker, since our private mail archives are
> already efficient means of saving the reports.
It's much more efficient for me as a maintainer to get a list of
all open bugs against my stuff by viewing
http://bugs.debian.org/psg@debian.org than to sort through my
mail folders (I know; I still do that for some projects, and I
always loose track of a few things).
-
If you don't want to maintain a BTS, put the Emacs project on
sf.net and use that interface for CVS and bug tracking. I prefer
an email interface to bug tracking, but SourceForge is free (as
in air) and works without significant overhead for the
maintainers.
Peter
- Re: Futile bug reports?, (continued)
- Re: Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Gunnar Evermann, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Kai Großjohann, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?,
Peter S Galbraith <=
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Richard Stallman, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Marcelo Dias de Toledo, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Paul D. Smith, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Paul D. Smith, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Tom Tromey, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Richard Stallman, 2001/08/15