Re: debbugs tracker builds character

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In fact, I would prefer to add a debbugs server to Gnus, which I would
>> ignore 99% of the time, except when a bug came down that was reported
>> against one of my packages.
>>
>> How far away from that are we?
>
> I don't think that's a massive amount of work, but it might be slow
> because of the limited query capabilities on the debbugs side...  Hm...
>
> I mean, querying per package is fast-ish (well, it's pretty slow, but
> it's not unbearable), but seeing whether there's any new articles in all
> the bug reports you're following would require polling each bug report,
> and that's just s-l-o-w.

I guess it doesn't make too much sense to do it this way. If we're
getting emails for bug reports we're subscribed to, then the problem's
already solved.

The main thing would be the prompting for package, and automatic emails
to maintainers!