Emacs interface to debbugs (was: Getting full bug database dump?)

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jan 14 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:20:37 -0500 Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> CY> Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> Hmm.  I can see how it would be useful, but if it would still be
>>>> one-way, I'm not it would be worth it... If it integrated with
>>>> message-mode, to make it two-way, that would be something.
>>> 
>>> That was on my todo list. One could imagine a debbugs-mode with some
>>> basic features the Web UI offers. Useful not only for Emacs.
>
> CY> It would also be nice if the debbugs package allowed browsing bug
> CY> reports as a Gnus feed.  (Also, I want a pony.)
>
> Do you mean a RSS feed?  Or do you mean a full Gnus backend?  The latter
> has potential as it would allow posting.  The metadata could be in the
> headers.

We already have `gnus-read-ephemeral-bug-group' for reading specific
bugs.  IMHO, what we need next is to adopt Peter S. Galbraith's
(Cc-ed) Debian Emacs package (debian-bug.el?) to Emacs' debbugs so
that we can do most of the things described in admin/notes/bugtracker
(tagging, closing, ...)  from Emacs (message-mode).

Bye, Reiner.
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