Re: Mummi wishlist: API using Message-ID

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

>> Once delpoyed to issues.guix.gnu.org you can visit
>>
>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/HAv_FWZRa_dCADY6U07oX-E2vTrtcxk8ltkpfvTpYCsIh4O5PuItHGIh6w-g5GGmoqVEfkjDUOplpUErdGEPAiFYdrjjDhwd9RJ4OyjjGgY=@hector.link
>
> This is great news! Using this, we should be able to implement a `mumi
> send-email' command to easily send N patches to a new issue. Here is
> how `mumi send-email' might be implemented:
>
> 1. Generate patches with `git format-patch --thread' so that there is a
>    Message-ID header.
>
> 2. Send the first patch to guix-patches@gnu.org.
>
> 3. Poll https://issues.guix.gnu.org/<message-id> to see if the first
>    patch has reached Debbugs/Mumi. Find the issue number of the new
>    issue that was created.
>
> 4. Send the remaining patches to the new issue.

This sounds like it could take quite some time, and the work it performs
is not transactional, so an impatient person cancelling it before
completion could end up with a bunch of “initial” emails without ever
sending the rest of the patches.

I think that maybe we should wean mumi off of debbugs and operate on
received email directly (using debbugs as a storage backend for the time
being).

-- 
Ricardo