Ram Bhamidipaty writes:
I am trying to do triage on the xemacs tracker. I picked issue #411
as that was the oldest. I believe the module for this one should be
custom - but that choice is not available.
Thank you for doing this work! Please use "core code 21.5" or "core
code 21.4" for now, depending on which version the issue was reported
for. If no version is available, use both (yes, you can check
multiple boxes there; see issue 432 for an example).
Is there a way for me to create a module?
It's possible, but to create modules you will need tracker
administrator privilege. I'd rather not hand that out to people I've
never heard from before. :-)
If you want to do that kind of work, we can discuss it. But we need
to come to some agreement on a system for doing these things. I've
thought about it a bit, and I've come to the conclusion that having
too many modules, platforms, and keywords is not a good idea at the
moment. See also my response to Vladimir's summary of issues he's
encountered.
The rationale for the division of modules is
(1) There should not be too many modules, or searches on modules may
miss many related bug reports. (Also reporters and triagers may
have trouble deciding which module(s) to select.)
(2) Bodies of code which are of interest to different developers
should have different modules.
For the core code, it's reasonable to assume that most developers know
C and Lisp, so the core code is lumped together. However, Vin Shelton
has special responsibility for 21.4, so there's a separate module for
21.4. The build system requires expertise in make and autoconf, so it
gets a separate module. The various infrastructure gets individual
modules (tracker, website, CVS/hg). And since each package may have
its own maintainer, the packages get a module each.
I'm open to discussion of different ways of organizing this, but it
needs to be focused on
- not being burdensome to reporters
- not making searches hard
- providing useful classifications for developers to search on
Again, thanks for doing this work!
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