Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

[Clément Lassieur]

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. :-)

It's

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(with-current-buffer gnus-original-article-buffer
  (message-fetch-field "Message-ID"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Cheers
Clément