Re: Jobs assignments
Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com> writes:
The jobs file I created has been up on the web site for some time
under
the heading "Dev team responsibilities".
good job, thanks!
Japanese Liaison
I agree with Stephen that this is not appropriate (he explained why
much better than I ever could).
I think we need an 'FSF Liaison' much more urgently. This should be
someone who regularly tries to sync and coordinate changes/APIs with
FSFemacs. Preferably this person should be on the secret FSF mailing
list and have access to FSF pretests.
Bug Tracker
The bug tracker is responsible for keeping track of all the bugs
that have been posted anywhere, either to xemacs-beta,
comp.emacs.xemacs, or similar sources.
NO BUG MAY FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS.
this is an EXTREMELY ambitious goal, give our development model, but I am
trying and eventually will get there. Help from XEmacs experts who do
Software Engineering for a living is always appreciated!
The secondary responsibility of the bug tracker is to investigate a
workable bug-tracking system for XEmacs. I know that the Samba
project has such a system in place, so we should just be able to use
theirs, for example.
actually we have been using Samba's Jitterbug for some time now:
http://cvs.xemacs.org/XEmacs-bugs
we've reached 1000 bug reports a couple of weeks ago.
I am not very happy with the current system and even less so with the
way I currently use it. I am planing to investigate alternatives over
Christmas (possibly Mozilla's bugzilla, debian's system or even
Jareth's super-secret system). We need much more functionality than
Jitterbug can provide at the moment.
What we definitely need is a Gnus backend to access the system with a
sensible interface. I hate Netscape's text widgets! :-)
Gunnar
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Gunnar Evermann
Speech, Vision & Robotics Group
Cambridge University Engineering Department