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Heh, the '(gasp)' is intentionally where it's at. It certainly could come after bugs, but that wasn't the original emphasis intent. Thanks for the report regardless. :)
In that case I don't understand your intent. You have put the "(gasp)" after the second word of the sentence. The first word was "The". I am guessing that the gasp is one of surprise. You have not set up any expectations which are surprised by the word "autotools", so I'm unable to understand the gasp. Could you possibly explain, please? Maybe it's a gasp of awe at the mention of the august autotools?
The difference in emphasis should be evident in how it would be spoken aloud. Gasping after is easily interpreted as implying cynicism, which isn't the point. Using it before is a more subtle implication of surprise and realization of the bullet point.
Breath in and pause during the gasp and perhaps it will make more sense in terms of presentation. If not, that's fine too. It's not a major point that is worth going into in more detail regardless..
I understand, now, your point about the delivery (you could perhaps have better illustrated that with an attachment to the bug report). But, if you're gasping just after the word "autotools", you surely have to be the speaker, and hence you can't be surprised, so you must be trying to convey surprise to your audience, which implies rather more cynicism to me than gasping afterwards.
If it were a major point it certainly wouldn't be worth going into in this detail.