From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51008 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Kotelnikov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus bugs tracking Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:57:18 +0300 Organization: Forexware Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87isu9d4bl.fsf@forexware.com> References: <87r88zpp2d.fsf@pale.sj.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048463901 27527 80.91.224.249 (23 Mar 2003 23:58:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:58:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Mon Mar 24 00:58:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xFM3-00079i-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:58:19 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18xFLU-0005bx-00; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:57:44 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:58:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA22697 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:58:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3607 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2003 23:57:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3602 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2003 23:57:26 -0000 Original-Received: from livcy.forexware.com (HELO flint.forexware.com) (212.176.241.2) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 23 Mar 2003 23:57:26 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (immo.forexware.com [10.0.2.32]) by flint.forexware.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2NNvNfH007771 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (sacha@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id h2NNvO5K004095 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:57:24 +0300 Original-Received: (from sacha@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) id h2NNvJXr004094; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:57:19 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: sacha set sender to sacha@forexware.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: (uU)eOi[yT~l(bwno'Pl_Z-MbLa:<"SX"r]IQb3zJ8G[n(PGcwS^;\?oSN~iz{IrR3`=_A- ]ghp.+wSOFa}KX@4m{Nl!yP)&v;o8~ (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:05:34 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51008 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51008 >>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:05:34 +0100 >>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson wrote: SJ> SJ> Alexander Kotelnikov writes: >> Hi. >> >> Sometimes bugs reported to ding@gnus.org are forgotten without a fix. >> It's a pity. And it is a trouble, since gnus does not have its own bug >> tracking system. >> >> Any comments? SJ> SJ> Adding meta-data management to the current gnus.gnus-bug is one useful SJ> improvement I can see. Like, e.g., making it possible to enter the SJ> summary buffer and list all "open" bugs, and be able to "close" them SJ> somehow. I'm not sure how to best implement this though. With IMAP SJ> it would have been simple, by using "gnus-bug-open", "gnus-bug-fixed", SJ> "gnus-bug-wontfix" etc flags on the messages. but gnus.gnus-bug is an nntp, not an imap group, isn't it? SJ> Web based bug tracker systems are just a time sink. The bugs are SJ> tracked, but less frequently fixed because developers cannot SJ> prioritize. In mail, if a problem is serious many people will report SJ> it many times until it is fixed. So it has a built-in flexible SJ> adaptive priority system which most web BTS's lack. I am almost sure that most of existing and working BTS have notion of priority. Even I would not call them "web BTS", since frontend is not the main part of most databases. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia