Re: debbugs.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:33:22 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:37:36 -0800
> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >> 
> >> 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 address@hidden
> > 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.