Re: debbugs.el

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> 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.

"I'd be checking it a lot more often" seems like pretty good
justification to me...

The mailing list is useful too, but it isn't a good replacement for a
query-based interface (I suspect that very active maintainers would use
both, but that many occasional participants would general prefer a
query-based interface).

-Miles

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