Re: Choice of bug tracker

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31/08/2023 17:09, Michael Albinus wrote:
> > > > If they aren't, then which capabilities_are_  important to have that
> > > > we don't have on debbugs?
> > > Just the common bug tracker stuff, mostly related to Web UI (allowing
> > > one to easily read and join a discussion, subscribe to it, unsubscribe,
> > > syntax-highlighted code snippets, linking of issues between themselves,
> > > links between issues and commits, closing issues from commits, assigning
> > > issues to specific developers, ...). Also better working search and a
> > > very visible page "latest active issues/discussions".
> > If those are the main points, perhaps we should also explore the
> > possibility of adding them to debbugs?
> The Guix people have written their own Web UI on top of debbugs.gnu.org,
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/>. Perhaps you can ask for their view.

Thank you for the reminder. It's a definite improvement over Debbugs's 
website. And I think it's a little better since I last saw it, too.

Rather interesting on its own, it's a Scheme (Guile) application working 
on top of the Debbugs database schema (which is apparently just one 
table, huh).

It's not a very ambitious project (at least judging by the readme: 
https://git.elephly.net/software/mumi/tree/-//README.org), so it seems 
we're not very likely to see it grow into something bigger. There is no 
interaction with the discussions from the browser that I could test 
(apparently, there is some commenting feature, but it's disabled on 
Guix's installation).

Either way, it checks off a few items from my list (the "Recent 
activity" being IMHO the most important, but also better search), so if 
we could have it in use right now just by snapping a finger, I'd 
probably vote yes. A definite winner in the category of keeping 
everybody's workflows as-is while still improving some things.