Re: A few questions about debbugs

["Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>]

Guten Morgen :)

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:
>
>> Hey,
>
> Hi Björn,
>
>> I have a few questions regardings debbugs, to improve my usage with it.
>> How can I improve the search speed when searching for bugs?
>> For example I'm trying to use debbugs to search the Emacs bugtracker
>> for existing bugs before reporting bugs and the search is so slow that
>> using the website is much faster.
>
> Hmm, it depends on an example. Could you pls show such?

I reproduced this in a clean Emacs config (with-emacs.sh[1]).
0. Install debbugs if not installed
1. debbugs-gnu-search 

However I can't reproduce this right now strangely, the issue seems to
just have disappeared on my side.
I maybe the issue was just on my side, the search works relative fast.
Fast enough to not interrupt the IRC process running in Emacs.
Thou it would be awesome if the search would asynchronous.

> Note, that the website has direct access to the bug database, while the
> debbugs package communicates via SOAP with debbugs.gnu.org. There might
> be speed regressions due to this. However, for further analysis, I would
> like to see your example.

I was aware this. I read the documentation when I stumbled upon KDE having once
used Debbugs. To bad that Debbugs can't interact with Bugzilla :)

>> Another thing I wonder is when I try to open a ephemeral bug group to
>> view a bug after closing the group it does return back to another Gnus
>> Group buffer I have open instead of the last one I used the command in.
>> Why is it this way, should debbugs rather use display-buffer here
>> anyway?
>
> This I cannot answer, somebody from the Gnus camp might know
> better. Adding Eric in Cc.

Thank you

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