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Metzger" , Dmitry Gutov , Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 28 00:58:47 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ia7Cp-000rdZ-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:58:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44194 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ia7Co-0000ry-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:58:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ia7Ai-00084N-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:56:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ia7Ag-0002vf-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:56:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wr1-f65.google.com ([209.85.221.65]:46310) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ia7Ac-0002ie-HP; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:56:30 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wr1-f65.google.com with SMTP id z7so25441462wrl.13; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:56:29 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=5cgbZsLWgfEsRrCkrCHlE+FJBgy3QlmKmWG+3tbzX10=; b=JrEae3m4QduYp1zQG6+A7F7SBOR/zKamuCHZMcliVsngItfOSbLfjASjdXmdSzEnos uiDkCYzWMjZXd6c6w2ZH5ga/9CvR31Yzm0emEPCX0SY/m7+vKu27t9SlbSdnkQbpQhda xQpiegTEZk7XByWfKJhC/ha/Hv5315v+XQ7LyWwh6FqFE3M+uKPcZFqYG83N4lJkOHD8 mSNbGnmZzf9gyFpoXAQQgJJusj3o1luSU5sRFW8szJR1FxieK+fOaoTXakiFWo1/NrUL rgcwfIVeInukVkGYjvaXk9wfEVojmPkUoDJ3kFDrHA/NOkdVn6sKG03+7CIc9rDb1du7 3lfQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVzxgygWwTyW/ttUwlO/fMVZq+P9sfFsZt6DSP0F8XgewMBP9/J x5zEv35PzGtptlhjRGCVtTqC4aU7hsvH5xlci8Q= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyRoaoKf29AmoHJW1kcl3Q/YOtUYK5bfKDXAkWbKaERVmoXqA6B++RlwmR5u4sk6zFcXBVA68ptZC7YJIa01aM= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:65c4:: with SMTP id e4mr47991305wrw.269.1574898988845; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:56:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <878so6o9yd.fsf@gmx.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.221.65 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242814 Archived-At: Michael Albinus wrote: > You could argue that the web-based issue trackers are more fancy. But > this is the problem: they are web-based. I'm using Emacs, and I want to > tackle my problems with Emacs. I think report-emacs-bug should be done with Emacs *and* be web-based. My vision is that Emacs should talk to the bug database over the net by contacting it via http(s).There should be an interface that could show a buffer with information about a specific bug. (That page would among other things mention the url where you can see the same information in a general web browser.) There should be a command in Emacs to search the bug database. The result of such a search can be compared for example to the *Packages* buffer when doing M-x package-list-packages. It lists resources that are available on the net. By clicking on them you get more information about them. You can mark bugs you are interested in and they are highlighted. Which bugs you are interested in are stored in some file in .config/emacs/ and when you last visited them, so you can get special highlight if it has been updated since you last visisted it. With report-emacs-bug you start writing a bug report for entering in the database. When you end it (with C-c C-c) you may get to see a list of possibly related bugs first and asked if it's a duplicate of any of those. After you've entered it you see it highlighted in a list of bugs, so you can immediately see what your report actually resulted in. Of course the bug you reported will be marked. I think the list to show should after reporting a bug should be the list of bugs you marked ordered by when they were last changed, so the bug you just reported would come first. There should be a main Emacs bug buffer from where you can search, bring up predefined lists, like "marked bugs", "latest reported bugs", "latest updated bugs", and report a new bug. -*- These are a lot of wishes with no code. I think the general idea is sound, though. Reporting, viewing and searching are all important activities with bugs. It's unfortunate if we only have a way to do one of those three directly from Emacs and that they are not tied together. And I think that it's not necessary to see mail as the most natural way for Emacs to communicate with the outside anymore.