Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> At YAPC::Europe, there was some talk over dinner about the perlbug
> email interface and making it a little easier to close bugs.
> Basically write up some mutt/elm/your-favorite-mailer-here macros for
> the most common operations.
>
> this bug is notabug
> its been fixed in the latest version of perl (possibly with a test)
> here's a test for this bug
> here's a fix for this bug
>
Yup - all in place, just checking one or two things before announcing
loudly and p5p gets it's greasy paws on it...
> The idea being you see a bug report on p5p and can reply to it *and*
> send commands to perlbug with a single command. So instead of hitting
> 'g' (group reply in mutt) you might hit 'B' (perlbug) and select from
> a short list ('n'otabug, already 'f'ixed, 't'est, 'p'atch) of what
> you're doing. Up pops an editor and you do your thing.
>
Yup.
> 1) Richard, is this up to date?
> http://bugs.perl.org/perlbug.cgi?req=mailhelp
>
Yup.
> 2) Richard (or someone who knows perlbug well), could you show us
> sample emails for the aforementioned perlbug commands? Just to make
> sure we've got it right.
>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: close_irix_<bugid1>_<bugid2>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: clo_ir_<bugid1>_<bugid...>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Once we have that...
>
> 3) Someone who knows mutt/elm/etc can code up a little script to do
> the necessary automation.
>
I know there's been a couple of scripts written to set off, or cc, the
appropriate emails.
Robert, Michael, Merijn?
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Ciao
Richard Foley
Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen!
