> Using org-mode instead of outline-mode is a no-brainer. The only
> incovenient is org's complexity. A basic but effective use of org is
> straightforward but its extensive documentation may seem daunting for
> the occasional user. Maybe a paragraph or two at the beginning of the
> file explaining what's required for adding entries and doing simple
> queries would help those developers who don't know nor plan to use org
> for other uses.
I will write a page on Worg about this.>> This is the basic workflow. Â Of course, permissions and other issues
>> could be refined but I think such a system is feasible.
>
> IMAO this setup is more complex and fragile than a conventional bug
> tracker. The idea may seem appealing at first for a group of veteran
> emacs users (those who insist on managing the bug database via e-mail
> because they refuse to use a web browser, for instance) but I'm far from
> convinced about its effectiveness.
Aside from the scalability of Org wrt to big bug databases, I'm myself>> I don't think the size of the database would really be an issue for the
>> system above - but maybe I'm wrong on this.
>
> I'm afraid you are. Lots of emacs bug reports comprises hundreds of
> lines of stack dumps, plus e-mail discussions with lots of quoted text,
> etc. Org is great for notes, but is it practical for containing tens of
> thousands of bug reports, some of them made of thousands of lines? And
> you don't control what's on a bug report, they usually contain all sorts
> of text constructs and random characters. How well it would deal with
> bug reports about org's itself, containing excerpts from other org
> files? Â Wouldn't this confuse org?
I don't know. Â Org is certainly not written for that purpose. Â But> Nope, the 20MB is the bugs' text alone.
Gee...> But attached files belong to the
> tickets and supposedly provide key information, so you can wipe them
> away to a place where they are not distributed along with the bug
> database.
Yes.> I think org as a bug tracker may work very well for individual
> developers or for small groups, but not for open big projects such as
> emacs.
Yes. Â In the setup I described in the previous email, no human directlyBut still, I will continue to brainstorm on this, because if Org is so
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