Re: Gitlab Migration

[Arthur Miller]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Perhaps the people that contribute regularly to Emacs could describe
>> their workflow in more detail.  For example, things like how they like
>> to interact with bug reports (if they use the Debbugs Emacs package, for
>> example),
>
> FWIW, here are my main criticisms of debbugs for my own personal use:
>
> - Can't search the database when I'm offline.
>   I really wish the database was stored in Git, so I could easily have
>   a clone of it.  This said, compared to other issue tracking systems,
>   the fact that it works over email makes it at least partly usable
>   offline, which is a big plus.

I think storing it in Git itself would be very nice indeed.

I wonder if it would even be possible to tuck git bases workflow on top of it?

Every bug could be a branch, with each email as a commit to that
branch. If we could git clone it locally, people could push/pull bug repports
instead of sending mails if they prefer? 

> - No notion of "subscription" to a bug, so replies will sometimes fail
>   to reach me.
>
> - The notion of "archived" bugs is a pain in the rear when you send
>   a new message and the message just bounces back with "the bug is
>   archived".
>   Either get rid of it, or automatically unarchive bugs when a new reply
>   is received, or something (e.g. ask for a confirmation message to
>   unarchive the bug and add the already sent message), but the current
>   way this is handled is *really* poor.
>
> - I find it a big difficult to classify bugs.  I'm not sure exactly what
>   I'd like, and maybe some of it can be done via tags and other things
>   already, but I think I'd like it if bugs could be "assigned" to persons
>   and/or to files and/or to "subsystems", and maybe even combine this
>   with ways to describe relationships between those things (so the
>   search tools can known that a given file belongs to a particular
>   subsystem, for example).
>
> The poor web UI is of course another criticism but it mostly doesn't
> affect me.
>
>
>         Stefan