Re: Gnus interface to Bugzilla?

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

Nelson Ferreira <nelson.ferreira@ieee.org> writes:

> Why not 'overload' the concept of digest, i.e. treat the bug as a
> digest and C-d would give you the replies there? If message-ids are
> generated the read messages should still be marked as such right ?

It wouldn't tell me when new comments have been made.

Let's assume that nntp.cgi has been written, so that nnbugzilla can
get data out at a sensible speed.

One-group-per-search/product/category/whatever:

The user would have a command in the group buffer to create the group,
which would prompt for URL, category, etc, and then create the group
based on those criteria.

`M-g' on the group would issue one nntp.cgi call to get the bugs and
how many comments there have been made.  nnbugzilla would maintain a
`(bug# comment# article-number)' triplet in a local file to be able to
map article numbers to bug/comments.

Say there has been one new comment made to a bug.  `M-g' will report
one new article.  Entering the group with `RET' does one show_bug.cgi
call (because of the mapping it knows which bug the user wants to
see), and displays the single comment.

Hitting `^' will go to the previous comment without any http traffic,
because Gnus will already have all the headers for this bug, and
threading works.  `A T' will show all the comments in the bug.

If a bug disappears from the group, nnbugzilla removes all the
mappings for that bug.  Or perhaps using an expiry scheme -- dead bugs
that are older than a month are removed.

Neat, huh?

The only problem is that the only way to display all open bug reports
in the category is to `C-u RET' the group, and display all the threads
to all the bugs.  Which means issuing one show_bug.cgi per bug.  So
just getting displaying what bugs are active would be s.l.o.w.

I think one-group-per-category just can't be made workable because of
this last problem.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen