Re: can Gnus simply use the Emacs bug tracker?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:23:56 -0400 Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote: 

GM> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> After some discussion on the Gnus mailing list we wanted to propose that
>> Gnus simply use the Emacs bug tracker.  Rationale:
...
>> This will get fun when XEmacs users report bugs against Emacs+Gnus for
>> XEmacs compatibility.  So maybe for them we can set up a special bug
>> category, passed to the bug tracker in the subject or in the headers.

GM> That's not a complete solution though, because Gnus also supports older
GM> Emacs releases, and we don't want those reports to go to the
GM> bug-gnu-emacs list...

There was a point where Gnus was merged into Emacs.  Do we want that to
be the separation point?  Or do we want all non-trunk reports to go to
Gnus only?  I'm not sure.

GM> Anyway, to some extent you can do this already.
GM> For some time, "gnus" has existed as debbugs.gnu.org package, with a
GM> maintainer address of address@hidden This is why you will see numbered
GM> bug mail from debbugs.gnu.org appearing at that address: either someone
GM> reported a bug against the gnus package, or, more commonly, I reassigned
GM> it from "emacs" to "emacs,gnus", so that subsequent mails go to both
GM> addresses.

I wondered how that worked.  Thank you for the help.

GM> So really all that is needed is to use "Package: gnus" in the first line
GM> of a mail to address@hidden Using "Package: emacs,gnus" causes both
GM> address@hidden and bug-gnu-emacs to get mails. You can do this today with
GM> zero other changes required.

We can change `gnus-bug' to add the Package line according to the
version logic from above.

GM> With regards to making it more "official", personally I hesitate a bit.
GM> debbugs.gnu.org is a GNU machine and the set-up is intended for GNU
GM> projects. Do you regard Gnus as a GNU project? GNU Gnus? I know Gnus is
GM> part of Emacs, but eg

GM> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnus

GM> does not exist, and I don't seem to find a statement on
GM> http://www.gnus.org/. There don't seem to be any mentions in the Gnus
GM> manual either. Stand-alone Gnus is not distributed on ftp.gnu.org. Etc,
GM> etc.

Sorry, I don't know the answers to those questions.

Ted