Re: a package to connect to github issues

[Björn Bidar]

Uwe Brauer via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:49:13 +0200
>>> 
>>> > To pull and push to GitHub, you can use Git as usual, since GitHub is
>>> > a Git repository.
>>> >
>>> > But you said "connect to issues on GitHub", so how does on "connect"
>>> > or "pull and push" with issues?
>>> >
>>> 
>>> I guess the OP want to fetch issue descriptions, render and edit the issue
>>> descriptions, browse comments, write replies, change issues status, etc.
>>> all in Emacs. Not in his web browser.
>
>> If the access being sought is via email, then GitHub lets users ask
>> for all the discussions to be sent via email.  Issues are sent to
>> those who submitted them or subscribed to them.
>
> That is correct.
> However, the problem is that github encourages the use of markdown
> syntax for example to emphasize source-code (well and other structures I
> do not care about much).
>

IMHO it really depends on your workflow. You try to reply Email with a
Github/Forge app/mode it might not be so easy to adjust to. Since
these apps don't notify you on issues in the same way and display new messages
in a way you can with email unless they specifically focus on a good
user experience when working on bugs.
You can markdown support but loose the other features you have unless
the apps are in a good shape to be useful.

Further not all forges offer the same integration via the API that any
app would use compared to what their website offers.
I.e. Github doesn't allow to select which email is used when merging
pull requests using their API but on the website its possible.

> The point is that if I add markdown syntax in my email replies, the
> github software deletes that syntax, the reason is not clear to me,
> maybe to fight spam.  

I don't change the mime-type of my emails however Github still does
recognize the markup of email e.g. when quoting another person.

The ruby package they use to parse email replies you can find here:
https://rubydoc.info/gems/email_reply_parser/

IMHO the added markdown support isn't worth the effort. For email
replies to work better is something only they can fix.