From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50975 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus bugs tracking Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:05:34 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: 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 1048349176 7505 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 16:06:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Sat Mar 22 17:06:14 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 18wlVd-0001wt-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:06:14 +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 18wlVM-0006JJ-00; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:05:56 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:06:59 -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 KAA20251 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:06:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 91813 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2003 16:05:39 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 91807 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2003 16:05:39 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 16:05:39 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2MG5YZG025556 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:05:35 +0100 Original-To: Alexander Kotelnikov Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030322:sacha@myxomop.com:a04315afe4d51612 X-Hashcash: 0:030322:sacha@myxomop.com:a04315afe4d51612 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030322:ding@gnus.org:bc00f29190701937 X-Hashcash: 0:030322:ding@gnus.org:bc00f29190701937 In-Reply-To: <87r88zpp2d.fsf@pale.sj.ru> (Alexander Kotelnikov's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:23:54 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50975 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? Adding meta-data management to the current gnus.gnus-bug is one useful improvement I can see. Like, e.g., making it possible to enter the summary buffer and list all "open" bugs, and be able to "close" them somehow. I'm not sure how to best implement this though. With IMAP it would have been simple, by using "gnus-bug-open", "gnus-bug-fixed", "gnus-bug-wontfix" etc flags on the messages. Web based bug tracker systems are just a time sink. The bugs are tracked, but less frequently fixed because developers cannot prioritize. In mail, if a problem is serious many people will report it many times until it is fixed. So it has a built-in flexible adaptive priority system which most web BTS's lack.