Re: A few questions about debbugs

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

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

> Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:
>
>> Guten Morgen :)
>
> Guten Morgen :-)
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, in fact we have already an asynchronous communication via
> SOAP. debbugs-search calls soap-invoke, which sends a SOAP request, and
> waits for the SOAP result. But we couls use soap-invoke-async instead,
> which decouples the two phases. debbugs.el is already prepared for it,
> via function debbugs-soap-invoke-async. So we could implement
> asynchronous search. Patches welcome!

Why soap-invoke-async not made use of when it was added?
If adapting debbugs-search to use soap-invoke is not complicated I could
try.
Asynchronous operating/threading was always a sore spot in Emacs,
especially in the packages that are the closest to GNU.

>> To bad that Debbugs can't interact with Bugzilla :)
>
> Anything goes, of course. But I suspect the Bugzilla interface is too
> different from the Debbugs interface; an own package accessing Bugzilla
> might be better.

Bugzilla has a JSON RPC API to communicate with Bugzilla (older,
deprecated) and the newer REST based API's I don't know how similar they
are to a SOAP interface.
How does debbugs leverage Gnus to display bug comments? Debbugs has the
advantage of being closer to email. Although Bugzilla isn't so far away.

> A short web search shows, that other people have also interest in
> accessing Bugzilla from Emacs. I have no idea, whether there exists a
> respective package, 'tho.

There is bug-mode that supports Rally and Bugzilla but it is mostly
unmaintained these days.

The bugzilla part still works although it doesn't look as nice as
Debbugs.

On topic that's slightly off-topic: Why does debbugs-gnu is called
GNU but refers mostly to Emacs? E.g. there's debbugs-gnu-trunk directory
which refers to Emacs. Further the variable looks out of place now that
Emacs uses Git.

Thanks for your help so far.