Re: Emacs commands for BTS on Debian

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Nov 14 2009, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> The following might be convenient for Emacs developers who use
> Debian or a Debian-based environment.  The Debian packages
> `debian-el' and `dpkg-dev-el' now have the Emacs commands:

Any chance to get this into Emacs?

> `emacs-bug-get-bug-as-email':
>   To fetch a bug report archive and read it via email. Makes replying
>   easy. I use MH-E but other Email mail programs should work.

There's also `gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group' for Gnus users:

,----[ emacs/admin/notes/bugtracker ]
| ** Gnus-specific voodoo
| 
| *** Put point on a bug-number and try: M-x gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group
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> `emacs-bts-control'
>   To compose email messages to control@ with proper command completion.

Sounds very useful.  Thanks.

BTW, I don't see a response to Stefan's proposal:

,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/93575/focus=94984 ]
| Forking wouldn't make much sense (at least as long as the backend
| bug-tracker doesn't fork either).  Would you be willing to not only
| contribute it to Emacs, but also help us adapt it so it can be used with
| any debbugs instance (most importantly Debian's and Emacs's)?
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How does it relate to what you implemented now?

> `emacs-bug-web-bug'
>   (Trivial) Opens a bug number in a web page via browse-url.

There also `bug-reference-mode' ...

,----[ emacs/admin/notes/bugtracker ]
| *** bug-reference-mode
| 
| Activate `bug-reference-mode' in ChangeLogs to get clickable links to
| the bug web-pages.
| 
| ** Gnus-specific voodoo
| 
| *** Put point on a bug-number and try: M-x gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group
| 
| *** If the above is not available:
| (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook
|           (lambda ()
|              (setq bug-reference-url-format
|                
"http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%s";)
|               (bug-reference-mode 1)))
| 
| and you can click on the bug number in the subject header.
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Bye, Reiner.
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