Re: debbugs tracker builds character

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> TZ> Please consider me strongly in favor of a better code review system and
>> TZ> a better bug tracker. Ideally they would be one and the same.
>>
>> I wish I knew why people find the current bug tracker acceptable. It
>> reminds me of the old ftpmail/DEC gatekeeper where you sent e-mails
>> requesting files:
>
> One of the requirements for a bug tracker for Emacs was, that it must be
> possible to control everything via email. That's one of the reasons
> debbugs was chosen.

A suggestion from a part-time package maintainer: make
`report-emacs-bug' prompt for a package, and offer the results of
`featurep' as completion. If the user picks a package that only exists
in ELPA, email the package maintainer with the bug report.

I have no opinion about bug-tracking backends, the only reason I start
packages off in github is that the issue tracker is mature. But I would
prefer to be emailed via the debbugs interface. In fact, I would prefer
to add a debbugs server to Gnus, which I would ignore 99% of the time,
except when a bug came down that was reported against one of my
packages.

How far away from that are we?