Re: Google Summer of Code -- 3 Org projects for our first participation!

[Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net>]

> we will have 3 students hacking Org thanks to Google and the GSoC
> program.  The list of all accepted projects can be checked here:
>
>    http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2012
>
> Congratulations to Thorsten, Aurélien and Andrew who made it!
> And special thanks to Thorsten, who really pushed me into this.
>
> Here is a short description of these projects:
>
> Bugpile - a bugtracker for GNU Emacs Org-mode written in Elisp and
> Org-mode (Thorsten)
>
>    The Bugpile project has two goals: 1. Develop a bugtracker (called
>    Bugpile) for GNU Emacs Org-mode, using Elisp, Elnode, Org-mode, and a
>    dVCS. 2. As part of the engineering process, abstract out a
>    web-framework (called iOrg) based on these GNU Emacs technologies. A
>    web-framework written in Elisp, with Org files used for database
>    functionality, is a new approach that enables interactive web
>    applications built on top of GNU Emacs. Bugpile is an example
>    application, but useful in itself.
>

Great news!

For the dim witted (me) can you explain if Bugpile is meant to be a bug 
tracker specifically for tracking bugs in Emacs and org, or can it be 
used as a generic bug tracker for any project.

Ian.