# Experimental Tag Sharing / Pseudo-Bug-Tracking for/with notmuch
-## getting set up
+## Web View
-1. The current set of patches against notmuch master is in branch nmbug,
+There is a dump of (one view of) the nmbug [[status|nmbug/status]]. It is even more
+experimental than everything else here, and currently manually updated.
+It is generated by a [[python script|nmbug/report.py]].
- git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/notmuch.git
+## Getting set up
- Currently you need at least the version of notmuch in master, and
- the script in contrib/nmbug.
+1. Install and use notmuch version notmuch 0.9+63~gebd1adc or newer.
+
+ The nmbug script is available in contrib/nmbug
-2. The current tag repo is at
+2. The current tag repo can be obtained by
+
+ git clone --bare git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/nmbug.git $HOME/.nmbug
+
+ Check that your git is recent enough by entering
- git clone --bare git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/nmbug.git $HOME/.nmbug
+ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug fetch
+
+ If you get failures then you need to update your git (as well).
## Using nmbug, simple example
$ notmuch tag +notmuch::patch $id
- # write the tag changes from the notmuch
+ # write the tag changes from the notmuch database
$ nmbug commit
## Using nmbug, doing the same thing with more steps
# Optionally inspect the fetched changes
$ nmbug status
- a tags/id1/patch
- d tags/id2/pushed
+ a tags/id1/patch
+ d tags/id2/pushed
# merge the fetched tags into notmuch
$ nmbug merge
# make the tag changes
$ notmuch tag +notmuch::patch id
- # double checkout your changes
+ # double check your changes
$ nmbug status
A tags/id/patch
But you will have to change your url with
- git remote origin set-url git@pivot.cs.unb.ca:pub/nmbug
+ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug remote set-url origin git@pivot.cs.unb.ca:pub/nmbug
## Tagging conventions
notmuch::emacs is a patch/bug for the emacs UI
notmuch::feature provides a new feature
notmuch::fix fixes a bug
+ notmuch::moreinfo waiting for feedback from patch proposer or others
notmuch::obsolete replaced by some other patch
notmuch::patch
notmuch::portability improves portability
notmuch::review is a review
notmuch::reviewed has been (well) reviewed
notmuch::test provides a new test/or improves testing
+ notmuch::wip is "work in progress", posted for review or comment.
+
+## Tracking the patch queue
+I (David Bremner) use the following search (in my case as a saved
+search in emacs).
+
+ tag:notmuch::patch and not tag:notmuch::pushed and \
+ not tag:notmuch::obsolete and not tag:notmuch::wip \
+ and not tag:notmuch::moreinfo and not tag:notmuch::contrib
+
+You might or might not want as many exclusions. Another interesting
+search is
+
+ tag:notmuch::reviewed and not tag:notmuch::pushed
+
+
## Design notes
### Disk format.