Re: a package to connect to github issues

[Björn Bidar]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:49:13 +0200
>> 
>> > To pull and push to GitHub, you can use Git as usual, since GitHub is
>> > a Git repository.
>> >
>> > But you said "connect to issues on GitHub", so how does on "connect"
>> > or "pull and push" with issues?
>> >
>> 
>> I guess the OP want to fetch issue descriptions, render and edit the issue
>> descriptions, browse comments, write replies, change issues status, etc.
>> all in Emacs. Not in his web browser.
>
> If the access being sought is via email, then GitHub lets users ask
> for all the discussions to be sent via email.  Issues are sent to
> those who submitted them or subscribed to them.

That's true however email replies are moved into the right context when
replying to inline commits on code changes.

Github (and also other forges such as Gitlab) allow for comments threads
on specific line of code.

It still works but they could map the emails better.