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From: "Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Gnus backend for GitHub/GitLab?
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:11:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736ejsehi.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (raw)

Watching this video about Magit Forge:

 · https://cestlaz.github.io/post/using-emacs-62-magit-forge/

It hit me that accessing comments on GitHub/GitLab seems like an obvious
candidate for a Gnus backend.

  * GitHub/GitLab-instance: a Gnus server
  * Each project you're interested in: a subscribed group
  * Each issue: a top-level article
  * Each comment: replies to issues/other comments
  * Label, State ...: headers that can be edited

I guess Pull/Merge Requests could also be articles in the group, only
with other default headers shown.

So what I am thinking of is, say, nntp+gitlab.com:bashrc2.epicyon as the
group, for instance, with articles:

 [Klaus Alexander Seistrup] User and status links: reorganisation?
 [Alex Schroeder          ] System load
     [Bob Mottram            ]
         [Alex Schroeder         ]
             [Bob Mottram            ]
                 [Bob Mottram            ]
                    [Bob Mottram            ]
                        [Alex Schroeder         ]
                            [Bob Mottram            ]
                               [Bob Mottram            ]

(Mapped from https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/issues)

Something like that.

Closing an issue could be editing the root-article and updating a
"Status:" header from "open" to "closed". Changing labels would be
editing the "Keywords:" header. Deleting would be cancelling the
article. Creating a new issue: posting a new article. Commenting
following up.

For public projects you could use scoring to ignore comments from
trolls. Or bulk delete spam.

I think Gnus would be better suited to this than Magit Forge. Well, if
you're using Gnus anyway, anyway.

If I had a backend like this, I could turn off notification emails from
GitLab at work, and I would never have to use the web-interface.

(Well, Gnus would have to support Kerberos in web-requests, so I could
see the images in the issues, but except for that.)

The more I think about this, the more I like it. Gnus all the things!

What do you think?


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "I wish *I* was a tiger!"                                     Adam Sjøgren
 "A common lament."                                       asjo@koldfront.dk
 




             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-19 22:11 Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2019-11-20  3:31 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-11-20  4:12 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-11-20 11:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-20 12:38   ` Adam Sjøgren
     [not found]     ` <87h82ywu6i.fsf@gmx.de>
2019-11-20 15:01       ` Adam Sjøgren
     [not found]         ` <87h82yvb7r.fsf@gmx.de>
2019-11-20 15:35           ` Adam Sjøgren
2019-11-21 12:31     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-14 20:42 ` Adam Sjøgren
2020-01-14 21:23   ` dick
2020-01-14 22:03     ` Adam Sjøgren
2020-01-14 22:18       ` dick
2020-01-14 22:45         ` Adam Sjøgren
2020-01-15  4:47           ` dick
2020-03-17 11:03             ` dick.r.chiang

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