Re: Necessity of queue-pr (revisited)

[Steffen Opel]

On Oct 25 Rick (Rick Macdonald) wrote:

> Personally, my cron job runs every 2 minutes, which is a lot less than the
> delay caused my my company's use of Notes Mail (don't ask). Also, doesn't
> gnats v4 gnatsd accept new PRs directly? For users of v4 front ends, they
> would get immediate feedback directly from gnatsd.

Not every admin seems to like cron jobs with a short frequency like yours, 
that' why I looked into it.

The 4.0 gnatsd indeed accepts PRs directly (and is a great enhancement in 
many other aspects too), but although gnatsd clients will sure be the primary 
submission method in the future I personally consider email usage still to be 
a useful alternative for the time being.  Of course, email submissions tend 
to need pre-filing review more often but in theory it should be possible to 
fully validate an email submitted PR by automatic means (mailing list server 
alike):

- get current PR form from gnats mail server, if not available
- mail PR form to gnats mail server
        * if PR is valid, get acknowledgment
        * if PR is invalid, get error correction request
        * if PR is outdated (field changes), get correction request
- may even allow to set/unset notification on PR changes

Doing it this way at least the nasty 'send-pr' client could eventually go 
away in favor of full featured ones, probably a good thing.  Still you could 
submit PRs by mail.  Implementing all this should even be easier with 4.0, 
but someone has to write the code ;-)

Ciao,
Steffen