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? -- Ciao Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen!