Re: GNATS backend?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> SY> What features do you envisage nnsourceforge having?  
>
> I want something to interact with the tracking databases.  

That sounds quite useful.

> I hate the web interface and would love something that would let me:
>
> Enter the group: download the current bug (say) list and display as a
>    summary buffer.  A different article would be shown for the various
>    reply sections within a bug report
> Reply: respond to a bug request by posting the response back.
> Update the various marks:
>   (I'm not sure the best way to do this within gnus.  Many
>   alternatives exist, like editing text field inserted into the
>   message, or headers, or...)  Closing the request, "won't fix",
>   "accepted", "fixed", etc.
> Some gnus functions can be used to update marks in some ways as they
> seem to map right in line:
>   Expire: mark the item as "pending"
>   Delete: delete it.
>   ...

I think this could be mapped over from article marks pretty easily.

Does Savannah use a similar interface to the tracking database as
Sourceforge does?  Then Emacs should definitely have an interface to
these databases.

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