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bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages
From: |
Bastien |
Subject: |
bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages |
Date: |
Mon, 25 May 2020 11:04:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Eric,
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>>
>> We could have report-emacs-bug ask for which package the bug is in.
>> The Bug Subject argument could be one of the acceptable package names,
>> including 'emacs' and whichever ELPA packages have been loaded. The
>> user could specify one of those.
>>
>> If the definition of a package says where to send bug reports for it,
>> report-emacs-bug could send each bug to the right place.
>>
>> If Bug Subject argument isn't on that list, report-emacs-bug could ask,
>> "Would you like to specify one of the ELPA packages that have been
>> loaded?" But you would not have to do that. If Bug Subject is unknown,
>> the message would go to bug-gnu-emacs, as now.
>
> Several years ago I cooked up something basic like that. I've attached
> the patch from that thread, which might serve as the basis for something
> usable.
I tested your patch and it looks really useful to me.
Two things that come to my mind:
- Package completion could not find "org" as a package: still, a bare
emacs -q list Org as a built-in package. Maybe we can add those to
the completion list?
- If completion fails, then the bug reporting process is stopped,
which may be confusing for users -- when there is no completion,
I suggest to fall back on the current report-emacs-bug behavior.
- I wonder what happens if the "maintainer" email is a mailing list
address: this might lead to confusion, with people cross-posting to
both bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org and emacs-orgmode@gnu.org for example,
which would perhaps lead to some more confusion because bugs on
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org are posted to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org when they
are tagged "org-mode" (if I understand correctly).
A simple solution for the last issue would be to forbid mailing list
addresses in the "maintainer" email field. In the case of org-mode,
for example, the address could be that of someone in charge of doing
bug triage, assigning tags to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org when needed.
In any case, thanks for spending time on this!
--
Bastien
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/17
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Glenn Morris, 2020/05/18
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/18
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/18
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/18
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/19
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/05/20
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages,
Bastien <=
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/05/25
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Glenn Morris, 2020/05/25
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/05/25
- bug#41373: GNU ELPA: Add "reporting bugs" to individual package pages, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/25