From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20101117105947.GB21042@shi.workgroup> <8362vvda2j.fsf@gnu.org> <201011180848.18858.tassilo@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290068386 2072 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 08:19:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-debbugs@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 09:19:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIziV-0001Dx-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:19:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIziU-0005iQ-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56440 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIziP-0005hm-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIziO-0007KD-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIziM-0007Ji-BB; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:30 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42042) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIziJ-00088i-AC; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:27 -0500 Mail-Followup-To: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-Spook: CDMA Rubin Rand Corporation 22nd SAS Watergate INS Janet X-Ran: gKM!~42in^4%+*}TKAqiwj|L$A4/H>m,q3oVyqudJ2K|X9.`rcnKZ`\KKe|i}|H,Q~**h6 X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <201011180848.18858.tassilo@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Thu\, 18 Nov 2010 08\:48\:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132814 Archived-At: Cross-post and follow-up to help-debbugs. Tassilo Horn wrote: >> May I suggest searching for subject keywords before filing a bug? Or >> looking at the N newest bugs. > > Yes, you may, but as long as checking related/duplicate bugs is not a > part of the usual bug filing procedure (aka M-x report-emacs-bug), it > won't have an effect, I guess. I thought it was basic courtesy to do a search before reporting a bug. But this seems to have disappeared, along with "report your bug to the right address", and "give a complete, self-contained description of the problem". > It would be great if M-x report-emacs-bug would query for "Bug keywords" > first (e.g., tty cursor column), then somehow query the bug database and > show a buffer with possibly related bug subjects including links to the > bugtracker. Then a user should be able to either say "nope, I have a > different bug" and file a new one, or attach to one of the listed bugs. If you think that would be great, maybe you would like to write it. > I don't know if debbugs has some interface for querying the database, or > a better output format than the result html page. But even that doesn't > look awfully hard to parse to rip out the link to the bug and its > subject... Great, so it won't be long before someone writes this feature then.