If I recall, you can request Debbugs content if you email them. ==================== Jonathan McHugh indieterminacy@libre.brussels
October 21, 2021 8:22 PM, "Arun Isaac" <arunis...@systemreboot.net> wrote: > Hi, > >> Thiago’s idea to allow people to subscribe to certain *kinds* of >> issues when they are reported is also good. > > I agree this is a great idea. Recently, I unsubscribed from > guix-patches. It's just too high volume. These days, I prefer to just > search for issues using emacs-debbugs and mumi. > > Here's another idea for mumi: mumi should have a JSON API. Debbugs' SOAP > API is quite terrible, and doesn't even expose such things as the number > of emails in an issue. Mumi can offer its own API which does these > things properly. That way, we can write new clients (say, a CLI client) > for mumi, that can filter more intelligently. If we had a good CLI > client, our contributors wouldn't have to set up an email client or > emacs just to participate. > > The way I see it, we are outgrowing general purpose bug trackers like > debbugs. We need a special purpose bug tracker specifically for Guix > with its special requirements. We are a big enough community for this to > be important. > > I might be able to find some time to implement a simple JSON API for > mumi. Would there be interest in such a contribution? > > Regarding, hacking on mumi, I understand that issues.guix.gnu.org is on > an IP whitelist with the GNU debbugs server. How do I hack on mumi if > simply running it on my local machine, and pulling data from GNU debbugs > would alarm the debbugs admins? > > Regards, > Arun
