Re: pretest, devel and bug lists

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, May 28 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> It would also be nice if there was a statement as to whether this
>> tracker is now offical and we should all start learning how to use it,
>> or if it is still being tested.
>
> It is official in the sense that you should all learn to use it.

IMHO there must be a decent Emacs interface for the bug tracker.
Several weeks ago I started a thread about the bug tracker [1] because
I wanted (and I still want) to put bug reports about Gnus into the
tracker.  But there isn't such an interface yet, though probably
`debian-bug.el' could (should) contain most of the required
features. [2]  However, I didn't have time to learn enough about the
BTS nor `debian-bug.el' to forward bug-report mails (e.g. from
address@hidden) to the tracker in a convenient way.

Also, the official tracker should be somewhere on gnu.org and the Web
pages have to be adopted: <http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/> is the
Debian page.  An Emacs user/developer has to figure out what has to be
ignore since it is Debian-only.  (Examples: "potato, woody, ...",
Links to Debian stuff, "NMU" [3]
<http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=emacs&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable#_3_2_5>,
 ...).

Bye, Reiner.

[1]
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| From: Reiner Steib
| Subject: Status of the bug tracker testbed
| To: address@hidden
| Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:27:00 +0100
| Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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| From: Reiner Steib
| Subject: debian-bug.el in Emacs? (was: Status of the bug tracker testbed)
| To: address@hidden (Peter S. Galbraith)
| Cc: address@hidden
| Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:40:07 +0200
| Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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[3] Accidentally, I (not using Debian) read about "NMU" a few days
    ago: It is "Non Maintainer Upload" in Debian, but I don't know
    what this is supposed to mean in the context of Emacs development.
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