From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Bug File Format Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:11:51 -0800 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87g02pn89q.fsf@tyrell.bad-people-of-the-future.san-francisco.ca.us> Reply-To: ttn@glug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016997582 3875 127.0.0.1 (24 Mar 2002 19:19:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:19:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16pDWn-00010O-00 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:19:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pDT7-0000Wd-00; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:15:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ca-crlsbd-u3-c5c-122.crlsca.adelphia.net ([68.64.59.122] helo=giblet) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pDS0-0000Si-00 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:14:45 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by giblet with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16pDPC-0006Gd-00; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:11:50 -0800 Original-To: evan@glug.org Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:179 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:179 From: Evan Prodromou Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:13:53 -0600 Wouldn't it be nice to have bugs defined thusly? (((number . 1) (title . "Bug 1") (reported-date . "10/14/1968") (reported-by . "Evan Prodromou") (affects . ("1.4" "1.6" "1.8")) (fixed-date . ("10/14/1968"))) "Blah blah blah. and blah.") I'm going ahead with the RFC822 format, anyways, though. this would be great if the bug "body" data were more constrained. keeping it easy to add info to the body (by cut/pasting emailed bug reports, which may contain quotes and other nasty things) is the most important factor in adoption (C-y is ok, but C-y C-x C-x M-% " RET \ " RET ! is just make-work, IMHO). perhaps you can use rfc822 for top-level format, and sexps format for some of the header values: Number: 1 ... Reported-Date: (iso "1968-10-14") # or (american "10/14/1968") Affects: ("1.4" "1.6" "1.8") certainly internally a nice alist-like data structure could be useful. if we can get paperwork out of the way, i'd love to see this worked into an executable module distributed w/ guile, in which case this style of bugs-database grokking can be embedded into other programs (modulo SMOP to separate the bugs-specific database schema, to provide "directory of rfc822 files qua database" functionality, generally). thi _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel