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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
	larsi@gnus.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: debbugs.el
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:29:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buor5aw8nt6.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zkpkqytb.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> >> I'd love to have a real Emacs-based interface to the Emacs bug archive.
>> >> I'd be checking it a lot more often.  These days I need to remember to
>> >> point a web browser at it, see if there's anything interesting, and then
>> >> type `M-x gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group RET <that bug number>
>> >> RET', and that's just boring.
>> >
>> > Or make the bugs come to you: subscribe to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> > mailing list, and that's it.
>> 
>> The idea of the debbugs SOAP interface is to send queries.
>
> I'm all for it, mind you.  I just think that the reasons stated by
> Lars are not a valid justification for having such an interface in
> Emacs.

"I'd be checking it a lot more often" seems like pretty good
justification to me...

The mailing list is useful too, but it isn't a good replacement for a
query-based interface (I suspect that very active maintainers would use
both, but that many occasional participants would general prefer a
query-based interface).

-Miles

-- 
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature
of the Unknowable.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-25  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8762sa9770.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found] ` <87pqqibr30.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
     [not found]   ` <87mxllambw.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
2011-02-24 11:33     ` debbugs.el Michael Albinus
2011-02-24 23:44       ` debbugs.el Evgeny M. Zubok
2011-02-25 10:55         ` debbugs.el Michael Albinus
2011-02-25 16:51           ` debbugs.el Evgeny M. Zubok
2011-03-01 10:15             ` debbugs.el Michael Albinus
2011-03-02 15:56               ` debbugs.el Evgeny M. Zubok
2011-02-25  3:37       ` debbugs.el Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25  8:17         ` debbugs.el Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25  8:33           ` debbugs.el Michael Albinus
2011-02-25  8:54             ` debbugs.el Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25  9:29               ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-02-25  9:55                 ` debbugs.el Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 15:43                   ` debbugs.el Stefan Monnier
2011-02-25 15:52                     ` debbugs.el Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25  9:59           ` debbugs.el Lars Ingebrigtsen

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