Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

[Clément Lassieur]

On Thu, Feb 15 2024, Clément Lassieur wrote:

> Hey Simon!
>
> On Wed, Feb 14 2024, Simon Tournier wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On dim., 11 févr. 2024 at 11:38, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 'b4 shazam' is probably the most trouble-free way to apply patches;
>>
>> I agree*!
>
> I don't agree (both Gwene + Gnus or Emacs Debbugs work perfectly too and
> allow to apply a range of n patches at once) but I don't think there is
> a need for competition here, it's good that we have several tools.
>
>>>                                                                     it
>>> even selects the latest revision it finds in the issue thread.  To make
>>> finding a message-id easier, I've also recently added a 'Copy
>>> Message-ID' button to the Mumi interface; try it visiting any issue,
>>> e.g. <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/68990>.  The message-id of any message
>>> can be easily copied to your clipboard via the new button.
>>
>> I also agree! :-) What appears to me “difficult” is that most of the
>> tools as Email client are poorly supporting Message-ID.
>>
>> For instance, debbugs.el (Gnus).  To my knowledge, there is not easy way
>> to get the Message-ID when reading an article (bug/patch) from Debbugs.
>> There is other means for applying patches.  But still each time appears
>> to me weird. :-)

May I add too, that you can add "Message-ID" in gnus-visible-headers.

>
> It's
>
> (with-current-buffer gnus-original-article-buffer
>   (message-fetch-field "Message-ID"))
>
> Cheers
> Clément