From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71786 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Any juicy outstanding Gnus bugs? Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:12:06 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87aan5bepl.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <87r5ghwpnr.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87lj6pwo9n.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87zkv5y2g4.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <878w2p7azn.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> <87r5ghbfl4.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285456374 30620 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2010 23:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:12:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20159@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 26 01:12:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzdvI-0000Co-Ek for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzdvA-0001Zg-1f; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozdv8-0001ZQ-C9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:12:42 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozdv4-0005vU-6h for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:12:42 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp4.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.84] helo=smtp.stanford.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ozdv3-0003L9-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:12:37 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B12BCC7B for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70A8BCC58 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 584F22F48E; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:00:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71786 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> The idea of the BTS design is to let you do nearly everything in e-mail >> as part of replying to the user's bug, without needing to interact with >> some other interface very much. You can, for instance, just add the >> bug commands to the start of an e-mail reply and bcc the control >> address. > Yeah, responding and closing bugs (etc) via email is very convenient -- > but only if you have the email to respond to. M-x debian-bug-get-bug-as-email downloads a Debian bug mbox and drops it into a ephemeral nnfolder group for me in Gnus, from which I read and reply to messages. The implementation is in the debian-el package in Debian, in the debian-bug.el elisp file in that package. I suspect it wouldn't be hard to get it working with the Emacs BTS as well, if no one else has already done so. > So if Gnus could have a backend to read the stuff, then responding would > be as simple as `F'. Web scraping is as yucky as ever, though. Can it > output the data in a machine-readable way? If you look at, say: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50 note the "view this report as an mbox folder" link. The bug metadata, like tags and whatnot, is available via SOAP normally; I'm not sure if that's set up with the Emacs BTS as well. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)