DVCSes, bug trackers, and GNUness

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

So Emacs must use bzr because bzr is GNU, fine. I'm all for GNU standing united.

But Emacs is using debbugs for bug tracking instead of the Savannah
bug trackers, because Savannah doesn't have an email interface for
manipulating bugs.

Shouldn't we switch to Savannah and fix it? Isn't that what we're
supposed to do about bzr? Why isn't there an executive decision to
prefer the GNU package?

I'm saying this because in Octave, another GNU package, we do use
Savannah, and boy would I like to have it fixed. I'm working on doing
just that by finishing the Python rewrite of Savane, and if email
support is what it takes to stop using debbugs, I would very much like
some help doing that.

- Jordi G. H.