On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:18:27AM -0400, Anthony Carrico wrote: > On 5/21/20 3:31 AM, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote: > > I think you've just described, in order: > > > > - Debbugs (the issue tracking software), > > Yes, I almost mentioned that Debian uses an email based bug tracker, as > a point of reference. I'm not familiar with the details, but I think it > is header based, Kind of: the metadata are in header-like "Name: value" lines, but in the mail body (i.e. after the separating whitespace line). > which is a big ask for users. Typically you don't write those by hand (you don't write your mail or HTTP headers by hand either -- at least not usually). For command-line junkies there is a `reportbug' utility, which at the same time collects some system information and prepares the mail for you. The nice part is that the generated thing is text based and you /can/ review or change it before sending. Best of both worlds, I'd say. There seem to be Emacs helpers for that [1] [2] (but I can't share any experience on them). Cheers [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForDebian [2] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TinyDebian -- t