From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: debbugs [was Re: Gitlab Migration] Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:26:01 -0400 Message-ID: <88o89f7y46.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28934"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Daniel Fleischer , Daniel =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 17:26:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjBV-0007Eh-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:26:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58300 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjBT-0004Sd-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjAj-0003ht-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjAj-00067C-1G; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:26:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjAf-0003lk-AU; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 11:26:03 -0400 X-Spook: corporate security smuggle San Diego SERT NCSA Hurricane X-Ran: uGOaoz7_QX]81f[,bja:PS]1zswW<.HiT!&\vLjcg{'XWr^FN}kSwqQjy=g+J_oN-8- X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:07:10 -0400") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273505 Archived-At: Obviously no-one's working on d.g.o (for some time), but for the record: Stefan Monnier wrote: > - Can't search the database when I'm offline. > I really wish the database was stored in Git, so I could easily have > a clone of it. I can't see how this could have worked in practice, given the size of the database. > - No notion of "subscription" to a bug, so replies will sometimes fail > to reach me. A clear shortcoming. I imagine this wouldn't have been too difficult to implement - just have a flat text file of subscribed addresses for a report that gets appended to the maintainer list. Ref: https://debbugs.gnu.org/5439 > - The notion of "archived" bugs is a pain in the rear when you send a > new message and the message just bounces back with "the bug is > archived". Either get rid of it, or automatically unarchive bugs when I think archiving is important for performance reasons. I imagine automatic unarchiving would have been easy to do, and I agree it would be useful. Back in the day, I wasn't so sure, eg I thought that mostly what would happen is that it would mean people could respond to very old bugs by mistake without noticing. > - I find it a big difficult to classify bugs. I'm not sure exactly what > I'd like, and maybe some of it can be done via tags and other things > already, but I think I'd like it if bugs could be "assigned" to persons > and/or to files and/or to "subsystems" There are the "owner" and "usertag" commands. > The poor web UI is of course another criticism but it mostly doesn't > affect me. The guix people made a wrapper - https://issues.guix.gnu.org/. Positive feedback back in the day would probably have gotten features 2 and 3 implemented, but the time is long past.