Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker

[David Kastrup]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

>  > Perhaps it's improved recently, but the last time I used the savannah
>  > bug tracker it was completely awful, and seemed to have no email
>  > support other than sending bug status changes and the like.
>
> Yes it looks like Bugzilla is far superior.  I know that this has also been
> suggested before, and I'm trying not to go round in circles, but I notice now
> that GCC use their mailing list gcc-bugs for their Bugzilla bug-tracking
> system.  If we set Emacs up similarly, then presumably Richard (and others)
> could use e-mail as before, while those that want to could submit bug reports
> through Bugzilla.

If Savannah's bug report system is completely awful and Bugzilla is far
superior, then this would seem like something that would warrant
changing Savannah policies or options instead of just special-casing
Emacs.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum