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Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker
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Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:38:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> > Not just evidence: you should volunteer to do actual work.
>> [snip]
>>
>> ESR volunteered for implementing the DVCS and the bug-tracker. I
>> volunteered for spam-filtering and monitoring the bug-tracker. I can do
>> other misc things, such as pre-testing the system and later assist other
>> users on its use.
>
> Yes, I know. But -- and please forgive me for being so blunt -- I
> have enough grey hair to remember a few instances in the past where
> people with good intentions said things like that. Sadly, intentions
> are all we are left with to this day.
>
> I want to see some action, in addition to good intentions and more
> talking.
You have experience dealing with ESR. Don't you trust him?
I think that the reimplementation of VC that ESR just accomplished
involves an amount of work of the same order than implementing the
systems he proposed. I never was involved with ESR, but his offer seems
pretty credible to me.
>> > A bug tracker is a good case in point: Richard stated quite some time
>> > ago the basic requirements for his acceptance of such a tool, but no
>> > one stepped forward to do anything practical about that.
>>
>> I'll be grateful if you direct me to the message where this requirements
>> were stated. I failed to find it on the archives.
>
> What did you look for? "bug tracker" worked for me.
I'm using the search facility at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/ and when I enter "bug
tracker" or "bug database" (quotes included) the result is
References: [ (Too many documents hit. Ignored) ]
No document matching your query.
> Try the thread which started with this message:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-10/msg00484.html
Thanks! Reading it.
>> A bug tracker that is not updated by its users is worse than not having
>> a bug tracker. :-)
>
> X done badly is worse than not having X... this is a general
> justification for rejecting change, not for rejecting bad ideas.
>
> These are not my words, they're yours, posted just a few hours ago.
That is not the same case. There are certain tools that must do its job
well enough. If you usually search the mailing list for data about a
bug, the bug system is offering little gain. Basically, you are doing
more work than before: now you must look into the bug system and the
mailing list. Absurd.
But as I mentioned on the message you quoted, I think this will not
happen, as the bug system would monitor the mailing list and swallow
data from there.
>> The advantages of a living database over a static text file are too
>> large to enumerate.
>
> But the advantage of the flat text file is that it exists.
Seriously, I don't understand your attitude. Is like somebody were
asking you to take some risk.
--
Oscar
- RE: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, (continued)
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/01/04
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/01/04
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Miles Bader, 2008/01/04
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/01/04
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Juanma Barranquero, 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Reiner Steib, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, David Kastrup, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Bastien, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Bastien, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Bastien, 2008/01/05
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/07
- Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker, Bastien, 2008/01/07