Re: Bug push - we need a bug tracking system.

Clemens> [...] justified by the absence of a bug tracking system, Clemens> [...] Mats> What is the status regarding a bug tracking system? I Mats> thought there was one on its way but then that was a long Mats> time ago. The BTS is me. At current rates of development, that's probably preferable to an automated system, because w/o it people query xemacs-beta and (eventually) I reply. If there were a BTS (a) they'd see that nobody is watching and go away, and (b) I'd feel no pressure to reply to queries because the BTS is on the job. As for an automated system, nobody has actually put any effort into doing anything about it. Bugzilla is unacceptable to me because it's still very email unfriendly, and apparently nobody feels very strongly about overriding my expressed preference. I've had a couple of offers to do something, but the people involved wanted guidance about what to use and would need substantial admin help from people with privileged access to our hosts, anyway. Anyway, a BTS is currently irrelevant. The core developers are either responding to bug reports on their areas or they aren't; there's no commitment to fixing bugs in general. In particular, I've forwarded all of Clemens's bug reports to Ben, and heard nothing back yet. So they're not going anywhere fast, and a BTS wouldn't speed it up. I believe this will change in the near future, as several dormant developers seem to be reactivating. But that's the current status. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.