Re: Incentives for review

[Jonathan McHugh]

If I recall, you can request Debbugs content if you email them.

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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

October 21, 2021 8:22 PM, "Arun Isaac" <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Thiago’s idea to allow people to subscribe to certain *kinds* of
>> issues when they are reported is also good.
> 
> I agree this is a great idea. Recently, I unsubscribed from
> guix-patches. It's just too high volume. These days, I prefer to just
> search for issues using emacs-debbugs and mumi.
> 
> Here's another idea for mumi: mumi should have a JSON API. Debbugs' SOAP
> API is quite terrible, and doesn't even expose such things as the number
> of emails in an issue. Mumi can offer its own API which does these
> things properly. That way, we can write new clients (say, a CLI client)
> for mumi, that can filter more intelligently. If we had a good CLI
> client, our contributors wouldn't have to set up an email client or
> emacs just to participate.
> 
> The way I see it, we are outgrowing general purpose bug trackers like
> debbugs. We need a special purpose bug tracker specifically for Guix
> with its special requirements. We are a big enough community for this to
> be important.
> 
> I might be able to find some time to implement a simple JSON API for
> mumi. Would there be interest in such a contribution?
> 
> Regarding, hacking on mumi, I understand that issues.guix.gnu.org is on
> an IP whitelist with the GNU debbugs server. How do I hack on mumi if
> simply running it on my local machine, and pulling data from GNU debbugs
> would alarm the debbugs admins?
> 
> Regards,
> Arun