Subject: Re: Bug system enhancements

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 13:11 BST

Steve Greenland writes ("Bug system enhancements"):
> I think two additional functions to the bug handling system would be nice:
> 
> send the outstanding bugs for a package
> send the outstanding bugs for a maintainer
> 
> (If that functionality is already there, then it needs to be
> mentioned in the help response.)

These aren't easily available for complicated reasons.

Firstly, the `send xxx' options just work by turning some HTML page
into ASCII using lynx and sending it to you, and there are no
`per-package' bugs pages.  You can use the sorted-by-package index,
though, and grep it.

Secondly, there are per-maintainer pages.  However, I haven't come up
with a good scheme for referring to them by email.  You could request
the `index of maintainers who have outstanding bugs' page, and then
perhaps ask for the appropriate entries somehow - perhaps if I were to
number the pages.  Perhaps a glob-pattern is the right idea, and
sending the user all the pages that match.

Opinions, anyone ?

Ian.

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From: Mark Eichin <[email-masked]>
Date: 09 Jul 1996 13:56:10 -0400

I'll certainly note that the two most heavily used features of PRMS
(err, GNATS rather) here seem to be
	- list pr's by maintainer
	- list pr's by submitter/customer
The latter is uninteresting for debian since we don't have paying
customers, and none of the submitters are "special" :-) but I'd
certainly have an easier time if I could just pull up my current
responsibility list easily (and getting the list of *all outstanding
bugs* that just happens to be sorted does *not* count as "easily",
given the size of the list - especially from home where I do all of my
real debian work.) 

Perhaps there's an easy way to split apart the "by-maintainer" post
that goes out weekly?

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 01:54 BST

> Perhaps there's an easy way to split apart the "by-maintainer" post

Have you looked at the Web pages ?  These have the information you
want.

Also, see my recent posting on this very subject, to which noone has
responded.

Ian.