Hi all,
mumi has two exciting new features—search alerts and watch issue. Now, you can subscribe to any issue or search query using your feed reader. # Watch issues Subscribe to a specific issue. Look for a "Watch Issue" link in the top-right corner on the navbar of issue pages. You will get something like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/77407?format=atom . You can subscribe to that feed on your feed reader and get all emails coming in to that issue. This lets you follow an issue without having to participate in it. And, you never have to worry about people forgetting to Cc you correctly via email. # Search alerts Even cooler, you can also subscribe to search queries. You put in any search query at https://issues.guix.gnu.org , and you will find a "Search Alert" link in the top-right corner on the navbar. You will get something like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search-alert?query=tag%3Ateam-emacs&package=guix You can subscribe to this feed in your feed reader, and you will get all emails from issues matching your search queries. This lets you easily subscribe to the subset of guix issues you are interested in without having to subscribe to the full firehose. Maybe you want to only subscribe to the Emacs team—find the search alert feed for "tag:team-emacs". Or, subscribe to all issues in which you participated in—submitter:"Arun Isaac" (replace my name with yours, of course)—and never worry about people not Ccing you correctly. The possibilities are as limitless as the search queries themselves. # Search alerts from public inbox I recently found out that public inbox has similar search alert feeds. I would definitely recommend that to anyone who wants to subscribe to only a subset of guix-devel conversation, and not the full mailing list. # Atom feeds under the hood Search alerts and issue watching are all powered by Atom feeds under the hood. Atom is a web standard. And, there exists a plethora of feed readers out there that can handle them. Feeds are a "pull" mechanism as opposed to email notifications which are a "push" mechanism. Feeds provide all the benefits of email notifications (and are arguably superior), while freeing the server from complex state management. Hope people find these new features useful! Feedback and patches are always welcome. Have a lovely weekend! Arun PS: I would appreciate if some CSS-proficient person helped out with https://issues.guix.gnu.org/77513
