Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.87; Tikz and Maketitle problem

[Tassilo Horn]

Faheem Mitha <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Faheem,

>> The bug-auctex mailing list (aka the gmane.emacs.auctex.bugs
>> newsgroup) is the official AUCTeX bug tracker.
>
> It's kind of hard to track bugs there.

I don't think it's so much harder to use than debbugs, isn't it?  Via
Gmane you have a good search to find the bug you're interested in.  Ok,
bug status (open, closed, needs info, etc) would be nice, plus a version
field.

>>> Suggestion: can debbugs.gnu.org be enabled as an AUCTeX bug tracker?
>
>> I wouldn't veto if some volunteed would make AUCTeX switch from a plain
>> bug mailing list to debbugs, but it's not that important to me to invest
>> time in that myself.  For the little amount of AUCTeX issues, the
>> current state seems good enough to me.
>
> Another option is to clone the auctex repo to Github or Bitbucket and
> use their bug tracker.

That won't happen.  AUCTeX is an official GNU free software project, and
Github and Bitbucket are proprietary services.

> Maybe there are not many AUCTeX bugs, but I think there are still
> enough to be a problem.

Sure, every bug is a bug too much.  What I've meant to say was that we
don't get so many bug reports that a plain mailing list/newsgroup
becomes too confusing.

But as said: if someone volunteers to figure out how to get AUCTeX into
debbugs.gnu.org, please do so.  It's probably not too hard.

Bye,
Tassilo