From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uday S Reddy Subject: Re: Co-maintainer, a least for some time? Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:50:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4bf55eb1.216ae50a.74d1.0bfeSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <4BF576C1.2000102@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38693 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGYyu-0003II-2x for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:50:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGYyr-0004rL-QV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:50:15 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGYyr-0004rB-G7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:50:13 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGYyl-0006DS-KQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 16:50:07 +0200 Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 16:50:07 +0200 Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 16:50:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4BF576C1.2000102@googlemail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 5/20/2010 6:52 PM, Thomas Renkert wrote: > What about using launchpad.net for bugtracking? > > Bugreports and code reviews can be done via email so they could be cc:ed > to the traditional mailing list while they would show up at the same > time in the web interface. > > Also, launchpad encourages more non-programming users to send in and > react on bugs and patches via the "answers"-interface. > > By this, maybe at least some of the maintenance tasks can be distributed > more evenly among people who would occasionaly check out a few lines of > code but who don't feel familiar enough with lisp an a large scale. Plus 1 for Launchpad. We use it for maintaining VM and the collection of facilities on the site work quite well. The main downside is its over-reliance on the web. The other is that it uses Bazaar for version control, which is probably not as streamlined as Git. But Launchpad is an integrated project management site that allows you to schedule milestores/releases, allocate bugs/issues to them, and makes sure that everything gets done. It provides for a variety of roles such as bug supervisor, driver, release manager etc., and allow for bugs/issues to be allocated to various members of the team. For a large team of contributors, which is what Org mode seems to be tending towards, it could be a big win. You can check out the VM home page, https://launchpad.net/vm, to see how it works. Cheers, Uday