Re: Gitlab Migration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 13:11:41 +0100
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, "Philip K." <philipk@posteo.net>, 
>       Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, 
> emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 
>       Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii 
> <eliz@gnu.org>, 
>       John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> 
> Additionally, I would like to point out that we need reproducible bug recipes 
> from bug reporters, and the best
> way to get them is something like Emacs -Q and its defaults. It is 
> unavoidable that offering profiles as
> suggested is going to have a negative impact in that department. But perhaps 
> it can be controlled if we have
> a small number of profiles and said profiles are easily chosen from the 
> command line and  the bug reporting
> instructions should updated accordingly.

I don't think this is a significant problem.  We could add the active
"profile(s)" to the report by report-emacs-bug, and that would take
care of reproducing the issues that don't happen in "emacs -Q".