From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: Tracking package submissions with Debbugs Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 08:35:57 +0800 Message-ID: <87lgz9u8eq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <57B1AD4D.2080907@goebel-consult.de> <20160815153059.7c8201e6@scratchpost.org> <87h9am5aco.fsf@gmail.com> <57B2BEDA.2020202@goebel-consult.de> <874m6kbyg4.fsf@gmail.com> <57B5A049.6070206@goebel-consult.de> <87wpiwruyd.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87inuf27h7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <20160902002755.GA30382@jocasta.intra> <87vayfm821.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <8737liam03.fsf@gmail.com> <87fupimq6n.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfywP-0001mF-DU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2016 20:36:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfywK-0005wO-DQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2016 20:36:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 2 Sep 2016 16:29:13 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ng0 Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> I suppose it wouldn=E2=80=99t handle patch series very well though, woul= d it? >> Or people would have to send the =E2=80=9Ccover letter=E2=80=9D of the s= eries first, and >> then send the rest to NNN@debbugs.gnu.org once a number has been >> assigned? > > Or could we have a bug per module? Then the whole patch series could be > sent to the bug id of the module. But I guess this would make it harder > to keep track of individual package submissions again, because bug would > rarely ever be closed when there are lots of patches to the same module. > Yes, I think it will make it harder to keep track of individual package. Is there a way to configure git-sendmail to do what we want? Here is a related idea. If we were to send all packaging bug reports to a single package (e.g. guix-package), then it will make it impossible to browse from a web browser. The situation is similar to the slowness of our Packages page[0]. So instead of having a bug per module, should we have a package per module (e.g. guix-package-emacs, guix-package-maths, guix-package-shells ...)? >> What=E2=80=99s unclear to me is how convenient Debbugs is for non-Emacs = users: >> Emacs has M-x debbugs-gnu, which is a significant UI improvement, but >> how do non-Emacs users deal with Debbugs? > > Outside of Emacs I only ever used Debbugs in read-only fashion. The web > interface is not very pretty but it=E2=80=99s functional and looks better= than > the default mailman interface. > Yes, it is still email-based. The web interface is read-only, you can search for bug reports in a package[1]. To reply to it, you send email to . For non-emacs users, this means they have to use email client to communicate and web browser to search / read bugs. > ~~ Ricardo [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/ [1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=3Dsubject%3Aemacs;pa= ckage=3Dguix