GNU ELPA has a 'debbugs' package that allows accessing the tracker
database from Emacs.
+Bugs needs regular attention. A large backlog of bugs is
+disheartening to the developers, and a culture of ignoring bugs is
+harmful to users, who expect software that works. Bugs have to be
+regularly looked at and acted upon. Not all bugs are critical, but at
+the least, each bug needs to be regularly re-reviewed to make sure it
+is still reproducible.
+
+The process of going through old or new bugs and acting on them is
+called bug triage. This process is described in the file
+admin/notes/triage.
+
** Document your changes.
Any change that matters to end-users should have an entry in etc/NEWS.