Re: related to an XEmacs BTS

Stephen> Uh, this is a volunteer project creating free software. Stephen> There's nothing that *needs* to be done, because anybody who Stephen> wants it done always can just do it (if necessary, in a Stephen> fork). [and] Stephen> You suggest (by writing "ought") that this is somehow an Stephen> obligation of the developers. It is not. OOPS! Sorry. I don't mean needs in the sense that anyone must do this. I mean that if you do it, because you want to, you need to do these tasks, more or less, even if it is only in your own mind. Stephen> [...] Stephen> But without new volunteers we can't do it *well*. On a Stephen> day-to-day basis, we need people to assign bugs to Stephen> developers, to classify them so users can search them, and Stephen> critically evaluate the classifications and admin interface Stephen> so that we can improve them. I agree that there must be a few people that take care of the system. I'm naive and hope that when the system is up and running it will catch attention. Stephen> (One reason I'm pushing Roundup is that I know that its Stephen> architecture can in principle support a lot of improvement Stephen> and innovation in those areas without a major rewrite, and I Stephen> know I can personally do the work (if nobody beats me to it Stephen> ;-).) Don't you think that with the right bug tracker effort Roundup, or similar system, would work out of the box for quite some time before we need to enhance it? Stephen> Even an hour a week of assignment and classification work Stephen> from two or three people would make a big difference in the Stephen> quality of the database. I'm probably naive but I hope that this task can be shared among many people or at least a few people. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta