Hi, On Sat, 05 Dec 2020 at 20:42, "Bonface M. K." <bonfacemuny...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious, how do you get debbugs to show > forgotten patches. I'm only beginning to use it > now ... Forgotten patches are just old patches. ;-) What I do with Emacs is: “M-x debbugs-gnu“ to have all the bugs and patches; with something in my config file as: (setq debbugs-gnu-default-packages '("guix-patches" "guix") gnus-summary-line-format "%I%(%[ %n%]%) %s\n")) Then I scroll down the buffer, generally M-> and I look for the state normal in red; which means no answer in the thread. And I pick one from my interest, or hitting p to move. In any case, it is worth to read all of them. :-) Next, I try to understand and/or to reproduce. Three cases: a) lacking info so reply for asking more details b) appear to me not-a-bug anymore so ask for status c) real bug so report/update what I did In addition, I have an Org-mode to track what I open and then remind me 3 weeks later in my agenda. If no answer, I mark it as moreinfo with ’M-x debbugs-gnu-send-control-message’ (C). Otherwise I add an item to my TODO list to work on it if I feel enough annoyed. Time to time, when I attend to boring meeting, I review all the moreinfo and close some if they are too old, ask again if I am not confident. Reading the bugs via Debbugs, I do ‘M-x org-capture’ (C-ctth blabla C-c C-c) then stash the link of the bug ’M-x my/guix-issue’ and start the reply ’M-x gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original’ (R), edit, and ’M-x message-send-and-exit’ (C-c C-c), assuming that Emacs is configured to send email. :-) Snippet of my config: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map "R" 'gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original) (define-key gnus-article-mode-map "R" 'gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original) (setq org-capture-templates (backquote (("t" "Todo") ("th" "Hunt" entry (file+headline "~/org/todo.org" "Bug Hunt") ,(my/org-templates-file "todo-bug.org")) org-capture-templates-contexts '(("th" ((in-mode . "gnus-summary-mode"))) ("th" ((in-mode . "gnus-article-mode"))))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- where the capture is: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * TODO [#C] Bug %? :hunt: SCHEDULED: %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t "+3w")) :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: %U--%U => 0:00 :OPEN: %U :END: :PROPERTIES: :Open: %U :Subject: %:subject :Date: %:date :MessageID: %:message-id :END: --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and the helper is: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (defmacro defun-bug->url (name url &optional docstring) "Macro returning yankage #bug URL. The `interactive' function that the macro returns is then referred by NAME. Please provide a DOCSTRING." (let ((fun (intern (symbol-name name))) (doc (concat docstring "\n\n" (format "Yankable result: `%sNUMBER'." url)))) `(defun ,fun (number) ,doc (interactive (list (progn (when (not (boundp 'debbugs-gnu-bug-number)) (setq debbugs-gnu-bug-number -2)) (read-string (format "Bug number (%s): " debbugs-gnu-bug-number) nil nil debbugs-gnu-bug-number)))) (let ((str (format "%s%s" ,url number))) (kill-new str) (when current-prefix-arg (browse-url str)) (message (format "%s killed." str)))))) (defun-bug->url my/guix-issues "http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/" "Add URL of bug NUMBER to `kill-ring'.") (defun-bug->url my/guix-debbugs "https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=" "Add (old) URL of bug NUMBER to `kill-ring'.") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Last, there is one point I do not like with the Emacs front-end of Debbugs is that the network is required. Well, I would prefer dump all the mbox and work with Emacs+Notmuch but I have not yet configured that. If someone has tip, please share. :-) Or maybe fetch from issues.guix.gnu.org the Mumi maildir+mu database. Hope that helps, simon