Re: debbugs tracker builds character

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:13:50 -0400
> 
> Will the Emacs developers follow me? I'd love to see them use a better
> process. I'm happy to concede I'm wrong and the current process works
> fine, but the evidence leads me to believe it can be improved with
> better tools (similar to the evidence in favor of Git when we were using
> Bazaar). I'm not going to spend the next 6 months talking about it; I'd
> rather know if the maintainers (Eli and John) and other core developers
> are willing to consider Gitlab or something similar.

If you expect an answer from me, then I don't have enough information
to do that.  I never worked with Gitlab, have only a casual
familiarity with Github, and don't have any clear idea of what would
that mean for the process.  Someone™ will have to set up a test
repository which can be freely played with, and provide enough
instructions for the relevant frequent ops to allow some first-hand
experience with Gitlab (or whatever).  Only then I will be able to say
something intelligent.

FWIW, most of the time I use up on Emacs-related work is spent
debugging and reviewing patches, not on stuff related to debbugs and
the VCS; the latter take negligible time.  Not sure what that means in
the context of this discussion.

Thanks.