From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ng0 <ng0@n0.is>
Subject: Re: Tracking package submissions with Debbugs
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:24:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fupd3jno.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160904070509.GA1724@solar> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sun, 4 Sep 2016 09:05:09 +0200")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> using debbugs corresponds to a suggestion I made a while ago, so I am
> obviously in favour of it...
>
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:37:02AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>> > I think it would make sense to have the one bug report for the "target
>> > package" and then all the packages that get pulled in along the way get
>> > tacked on also.
>> Hmm, but what if we have 2 target packages (A, B) pulling the same
>> package (C) in? Then it is not obvious if C should live in A's or B's
>> bug report. What do you think?
>
> I do not quite understand the problem with relating bug reports to packages.
> The discussion sounds as if we considered one constantly open bug report per
> package, which is maybe a misunderstanding on my part. I would say that bug
> reports should correspond roughly to our current discussion threads on
> guix-devel: Someone sends in a patch or patch series, which opens a new bug
> (there seems to be the problem of git-sendmail still); there are replies back
> and forth; in the end the patch is applied (or, from time to time, retracted),
> and the bug is closed. In this way, we have an overview of pending patches
> and are less likely to forget one.
>
My original thought is to have a bug report per version, so people can
easily search for the packaging history for a particular version. But it
sounds like your idea is better than mine, having an overview of pending
patches is more important.
> As for the non-emacs users, I intend to work as before: Subscribe to all the
> bugs and have them end up in my mailbox, reply, and potentially close them
> by mail.
>
I think per-bug subsciption is not working right now[0]. Do you know of
any good alternatives?
> Andreas
[0]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5439
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-13 10:46 Feedback, ideas, discussion: tracking patches, discussions, bugs David Craven
2016-08-13 11:11 ` David Craven
2016-08-13 11:23 ` ng0
2016-08-14 5:41 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-08-14 9:14 ` ng0
2016-08-15 1:39 ` David Craven
2016-08-15 4:55 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-08-15 9:11 ` David Craven
2016-08-16 13:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-16 13:29 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-08-15 11:53 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-08-15 13:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-15 15:18 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-16 7:20 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-08-16 14:06 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-18 11:47 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-01 6:32 ` ng0
2016-09-01 11:19 ` ng0
2016-09-02 0:27 ` John Darrington
2016-09-02 0:58 ` ng0
2016-09-02 5:50 ` Alex Vong
2016-09-02 8:21 ` ng0
2016-09-02 10:54 ` Alex Vong
2016-09-03 16:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-09-03 16:55 ` David Craven
2016-09-03 19:19 ` Brendan Tildesley
2016-09-03 19:53 ` David Craven
2016-09-03 20:42 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-02 12:39 ` Tracking package submissions with Debbugs Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-02 14:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-09-03 0:35 ` Alex Vong
2016-09-03 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-04 2:21 ` Alex Vong
2016-09-03 21:00 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-04 2:37 ` Alex Vong
2016-09-04 7:05 ` Andreas Enge
2016-09-04 16:57 ` ng0
2016-09-04 17:00 ` ng0
2016-09-04 17:09 ` David Craven
2016-09-05 12:52 ` Alex Kost
2016-09-05 20:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-05 20:39 ` David Craven
2016-09-05 23:12 ` ng0
2016-09-07 20:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-05 23:17 ` ng0
2016-09-05 23:54 ` David Craven
2016-09-06 0:01 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-06 7:57 ` ng0
2016-09-06 11:26 ` David Craven
2016-09-06 1:24 ` Alex Vong [this message]
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