debbugs? Reply-To:

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:17:07PM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
> David,
>
> You commented: "Yes I know debbugs exists for Octave, but no one is  
> using it, as its easier to send to the mailing list and let John deal  
> with the bug/patch tracking in his head."
>
> I must admit I don't know what you are referring to as "debbugs".

It's the bug tracker originally developed and used by Debian. The GNU
Emacs developers were on search for a mail-based tracker, so Don
Armstrong (debbugs' current main developer) set an instance up for them
for evaluation.

I checked with him that we could use that instance to evaluate debbugs
for Octave (zero setup costs for us). So, there's an octave package in
that system as well:
http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=pkg

Personally, I don't think debbugs is the way to go for Octave, though. I
proposed this originally, but there are a lot of things in debbugs that
require learning. And especially with newcomers reporting bugs, that is
not so easy.

	Thomas