Re: Bug Database?

[Yavor Doganov]

В Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:30:06 +1300, Nick Roberts написа:

> As a start why not just ask the Savannah Hackers to turn on the bug
> tracker for Emacs?

That's not necessary, the project admins can activate it.

> Then people who want to use it could file bugs there, and you could
> keep your own record in FOR-RELEASE.

I anticipate that what RMS (and possibly others who work mostly
offline) means is that setting up such a bug tracker will require
extra efforts, and possibly will lead to duplicated entries.  Perhaps
it will confuse users too, as there will be two ways to report bugs
and they won't know which is the canonical one.

IMVHO, what's needed is a bug tracking system that is entirely
controlled by email.  Thus, people like RMS will continue to work as
now, and it will be possible to query/search the BTS.  AFAIK, only
debbugs offers this (and partly RT, but assigning/resolving bugs
depends on the web interface).