Re: Help wanted for mumi (issues.guix.gnu.org)

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Ricardo!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> So I decided to switch away from using the Debbugs API and instead
> operate on a *local* copy of all messages that reach Debbugs.  Debbugs
> operates on email messages, and luckily it allows us to download these
> original messages.  Whenever someone visits an issue page, all related
> messages are downloaded by mumi, so it amasses a sizeable stash of
> emails over time.

That sounds like a great improvement!

> Unfortunately, that’s as far as I got before life intervened.  The next
> step is really close, but getting there requires more contiguous
> segments of time than I can free at the moment.  We really only need to
> do the following things next:
>
> 1) keep updating the mu database as new messages are stored
> 2) using the mu Guile bindings to search messages via mu instead of
> using the slow Debbugs API.
>
> While working on 2 we may find that more properties should be stored in
> the mu database, and that’s fine.  Our variant of mu is easily patched
> to accomodate our needs.
>
> Does anyone here have an interest in playing with and improving mumi?
> It’s a very simple code base and it’s very easy to get started.
>
> The code is here:
>
>     https://git.elephly.net/software/mumi.git

I’m not offering to work on it right now, but it sounds like a nice
rewarding project someone™ should take!  :-)

Thanks for all your work on this, issues.guix.gnu.org has already been
very helpful!

Ludo’.