Re: A few questions about debbugs

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Stefan,

>> Replacing soap-invoke by soap-invoke-async is not a problem. What I
>> worry about is the UI. If you invoke debbugs-search, and you do
>> something else in Emacs then, you need a proper way how to present the
>> search results to the user w/o interrupting the work she is doing
>> meanwhile.
>
> Indeed displaying the buffer asynchronously is too disruptive.
>
> The usual way to do that in Emacs is to immediately display the (empty)
> result buffer and then maybe emit a `message` when this buffer has
> been filled.

Thanks for the explanation. I'll give it a try for debbugs-{gnu,org}-search.

> Maybe to complement Michael's answer: `debbugs.gnu.org` was originally
> setup for Emacs's bug tracking needs.  Since then, other GNU packages
> have decided to use that server as well, but Emacs is still probably the
> main user.

Yes, but not such dominant as expected:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(length (debbugs-get-bugs :package "emacs" :archive "both"))
=> 34657

(length (debbugs-get-bugs :package "guix" :package "guix-patches" :archive "both"))
=> 27259
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.