Bug tracker?

I'm finding that I'm increasingly less motivated to report issues, bug fixes, and patches that are coming out of maintenance of XEmacs for Gentoo. I think that this is mainly caused by the lack of a bug tracker, so I'll present the case for one and end by asking why there isn't one currently, whether one is wanted, and what steps are needed to make this happen. For me providing patches to XEmacs is really a fire-and-forget thing. I send out the message, maybe something happens, maybe not, depending on interestingness and availability, and if nothing happens in a short period of time the work is essentially lost. Other people won't be able to easily search for it, comment on it, or amend it. It also makes tracking fixes much harder than it would need to be. Having a single reference to a bug report or patch makes it a lot easier to keep an eye on progress and help things along if needed. I also feel that the lack of a bug tracker is holding back growth of XEmacs development. Helping out with filling bugs, commenting on bugs, testing patches, providing fixes for easy problems and progressing to more complex work is a natural way to attract new people to the development team, but without a place to work on it this is much less likely to happen. A set of mailing lists is really a very poor substitute for such a workflow. Looking at http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html it seems that there is latent interest in having a bug tracker in place, given the comment at the bottom. So, my questions: Is a bug tracker still wanted? Has any work been done on this already? What would be the next steps for making this happen? Kind regards, Hans _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta