Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> > > I was thinking about this possibility and concluded that it is not
> > > possible to build a decent bug-tracking system using only a VCS. The
> > > reason is the importance of the user interface, which must be open to
> > > everybody, not only for the committers, as PROBLEMS and TODO are now,
> > > thus effectively dissuading possible contributions from the outside.
> > OK, VCS access IN ADDITION TO web access.  How about that?
>
> Others just proposed such a system. I'm skeptical about it. So far, it
> seems quite limiting and for a good reason:

I do not get your point here. Can you explain why you are skeptical and 
why you think it would be limiting in another way?

> > > Furthermore, a bug-tracking system needs a database and a VCS is not
> > > good at that.
> > That is a good argument for staying with an email based system.  ;-(
> > What's the point of a bug system if you have to be online to use it?  It
> > kind of cancels out the benefit of a dVCS for our other files.
> >
> > Are you telling me I won't be able to grep a bug-tracking database?  If
> > I'm using such a database, I want instant response when I press <CR> to
> > look at an item.  I want to be able to do M-x occur (or the like) on it,
> > without going through some ghastly GUI interface.  I want regexp
> > searching, filtering with a "command line"-like interface (e.g., like
> > mutt has), and so on.  And I want the database on my own hard disk, for
> > speed and flexibility.
>
> You can request a plain-text export of the database.