I thought one of the painful reasons to branch was that bug reporting
wasn't being taken into consideration. Granted even going with
bugzilla is a huge step in the right direction. But perhaps we should
look at bug tracking with a lot more seriousness than what the norm
is? So this project can take the lead with current xemacs, and even
might set the tone for new ways of handling bug tracking. It is a
serious aspect of open source development that most projects don't
take very seriously. We could pioneer a way of automating it more
efficiently. I'm just putting ideas out there, but from what Steve
wrote in his initial email/idea fest I'm just questioning at weather
or not current solutions are effective enough. Please understand that
I'm not shooting down just using bugzilla standalone either. Just
putting my two sense in. And really posing the problem, and really
thinking if bugzilla standalone is enough?
Nick
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:50:44 -0700, Erik Arneson <erik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howdy, folks. Steve asked me to join the project, and so I have! How's
> everybody doing?
>
> Anyhow, regarding issue trackers, user-friendliness and familiarity
> really should be high on our list. In addition, I'd like to avoid
> reinventing the wheel. We want to work on SXEmacs most, and let the bug
> tracking take care of itself. In other words, I'm not sure we want all
> our volunteers to spend their time writing and fixing the bug tracker --
> we want them on SXEmacs itself, right?
>
> I've had experience with a few different bug/issue tracking systems, and
> though it pains me to say it, I've had the best experiences with
> Bugzilla. Its UI is really damn ugly (and coming from an Emacs junky,
> that's saying a lot), but it gets the job done and most community
> bug-reporting types will already be familiar with it.
>
> Those itching for an Emacs-based interaction with it can always fire up
> w3m-emacs or write something on their own.
>
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