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Re: Bug Database?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Bug Database? |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:40:00 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:31:59 +0900
>
> While it's nice to have the _ability_ to submit bugs via the web (casual
> users might find it easier to deal with such an interface), I think
> email reporting is mandatory. It's also nice to have something like
> debian's "reportbug" program, which uses a simple UI on the user's
> machine to prompt for details, but sends email to actually report the
> bug. Basically, choice is good.
>
> Several reasons for this:
>
> (1) Email is available in situations where web access is not (the
> reverse is true too of course: again, choice is good).
This goes both ways, as you say.
> (2) Typical web bug-tracker interfaces are completely awful (bugzilla,
> I'm looking at you...)
I was suggesting a specific interface: the Savannah bug tracker. I
think its interface is reasonable, please take a look.
> (3) Many bugs involve "conversations", with back-and-forth between
> developers (often more than one) and bug reports. Web-only
> interfaces like bugzilla make this very awkward -- while it wil
> _send_ email to indicate a new response in "the conversation" about
> a bug, one must then go to the web page and fill in a form to reply!
> The natural thing, simply replying (to the email'd report) via one's
> mail client, isn't supported!
I don't see this as such a disadvantage: if you do both through Emacs,
why does it matter?
Anyway, while there are disadvantages to what I suggested, there's one
very significant advantage: we can use the Savannah bug tracking
interface, which is already used by quite a few projects and is
maintained by the FSF personnel. The other solutions will require us
to invent everything and will put a much more serious burden on the
Emacs maintenance team. What if whoever volunteers for this job will
some day become unavailable? A bug-tracking system is not something
that we can afford to be down.
- Re: Bug Database?, (continued)
- Re: Bug Database?, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/19
- Re: Bug Database?, Jason Rumney, 2006/10/19
- Re: Bug Database?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/20
- Re: Bug Database?, Jason Rumney, 2006/10/20
- Re: Bug Database?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/20
- Re: Bug Database?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/20
- Re: Bug Database?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/20
- Re: Bug Database?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/20
- Re: Bug Database?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/21
- Re: Bug Database?, Miles Bader, 2006/10/20
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Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Bug Database?, Miles Bader, 2006/10/21
- Re: Bug Database?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/22
- Re: Bug Database?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/21
- Re: Bug Database?, Miles Bader, 2006/10/21
- Re: Bug Database?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/21
- Re: Bug Database?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/21
- Re: Bug Database?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/23
- Re: Bug Database?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/23
- Re: Bug Database?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/23
- Re: Bug Database?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/10/23