Re: GNATS backend?

[Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:49:39 +1000, Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> said:

SY> As someone who maintains a project on SF (and is on a couple of
SY> others), you've got my interest.

Yep.  ;-)  I maintain one as well and hence my reason for wanting
something in gnus.

SY> What features do you envisage nnsourceforge having?  

I want something to interact with the tracking databases.  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.
  ...

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