l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >>> >>>> I suppose it wouldn’t handle patch series very well though, would it? >>>> Or people would have to send the “cover letter” of the series first, and >>>> then send the rest to n...@debbugs.gnu.org once a number has been >>>> assigned? >>> >>> Or could we have a bug per module? Then the whole patch series could be >>> sent to the bug id of the module. But I guess this would make it harder >>> to keep track of individual package submissions again, because bug would >>> rarely ever be closed when there are lots of patches to the same module. >>> >> Yes, I think it will make it harder to keep track of individual >> package. Is there a way to configure git-sendmail to do what we want? >> >> Here is a related idea. If we were to send all packaging bug reports to >> a single package (e.g. guix-package), then it will make it impossible to >> browse from a web browser. The situation is similar to the slowness of >> our Packages page[0]. So instead of having a bug per module, should we >> have a package per module (e.g. guix-package-emacs, guix-package-maths, >> guix-package-shells ...)? > > I think that wouldn’t scale, and would also prevent us to have a global > view of all the pending submissions (not to mention that debbugs.gnu.org > is administered by non-Guix people and they’d quickly be annoyed ;-)). > > So, let’s ask for guix-pack...@gnu.org (or guix-patc...@gnu.org?) to > begin with? > I see. Right now, emacs has about 3766 non-archived bugs, and it takes 12 - 15 seconds to load the bug page in tor browser / firefox, which is still acceptable. Guix now has about 3958 packages, so I will guess it will take similar time to load?
About scalibility, I also find that the split will make it difficult to search for a particular package, since the web-based interface only support for searching up to 2 packages at once. So yes, I think we should ask for guix-pack...@gnu.org to begin. >>>> What’s unclear to me is how convenient Debbugs is for non-Emacs users: >>>> Emacs has M-x debbugs-gnu, which is a significant UI improvement, but >>>> how do non-Emacs users deal with Debbugs? >>> >>> Outside of Emacs I only ever used Debbugs in read-only fashion. The web >>> interface is not very pretty but it’s functional and looks better than >>> the default mailman interface. >>> >> Yes, it is still email-based. The web interface is read-only, you can >> search for bug reports in a package[1]. To reply to it, you send email >> to <xxxxx-bug-guix-pack...@debbugs.org>. For non-emacs users, this means >> they have to use email client to communicate and web browser to search / >> read bugs. > > Yeah well, better than the Mailman interface. > I forget to mention: This reminds me of the old joke: Emacs is an operating system that needs a better editor :) > Thanks, > Ludo’.
