News for release 0.38.3

[notmuch-wiki] / nmbug.mdwn

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 ## Web View
 
-There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/status]].
+There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/status]].
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install and use nmbug from notmuch version **0.18** or newer and
-   perl module `Pod::Usage` (packaged as `perl-doc` in debian).
+0. Make sure that the whole [notmuch@notmuchmail.org mailing list
+   archive][archive] is available in your email database.
+
+   If you are missing messages which are tagged in the nmbug
+   repository, `nmbug status` will complain with U-prefixed lines and
+   you will have to jump through some hoops to create commits that
+   alter tags for those messages.  Most other nmbug operation will be
+   unaffected.
+
+1. Install and use nmbug from notmuch version **0.19** or newer, and
+   either Python 2.7 or anything from the 3.x line.
 
    The nmbug script is available in [devel/nmbug][nmbug].
 
@@ -16,7 +25,14 @@ There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/s
 
 3. Enter the following command to obtain the current tag repository:
 
-   `$ nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git`
+   `$ nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git`
+
+4. Clobber your local `notmuch::…` tag namespace with:
+
+   `$ nmbug checkout`
+
+   Without this, `nmbug status` will list all of the upstream tags as
+   deleted (with the D prefix).
 
 ## Using nmbug, simple example
 
@@ -60,16 +76,16 @@ There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/s
 
 For the moment, we are using a central repo, hosted at:
 
-    nmbug@nmbug.tethera.net:nmbug-tags
+    nmbug@nmbug.notmuchmail.org:nmbug-tags
 
 To get push access, send your public key (ideally in a gpg signed
 email) to David Bremner.  There is a convenience command:
 
     $ nmbug push
 
-But you will have to change your url with:
+But you will have to change your push URL with:
 
-    $ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug remote set-url origin nmbug@nmbug.tethera.net:nmbug-tags
+    $ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug remote set-url --push origin nmbug@nmbug.notmuchmail.org:nmbug-tags
 
 ## Tagging conventions
 
@@ -150,9 +166,12 @@ search in emacs):
 You might or might not want as many exclusions.  Another interesting
 search is:
 
-    tag:notmuch::reviewed and not tag:notmuch::pushed
+    tag:notmuch::patch and not tag:notmuch::needs-review and not \
+        tag:notmuch::pushed and not tag:notmuch::obsolete and not \
+            tag:notmuch::wontfix and not tag:notmuch::moreinfo and not \
+                tag:notmuch::stale and not tag:notmuch::wip
 
-See the [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/status]] page for more
+See the [[status|https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/status]] page for more
 example searches.
 
 ## Design notes
@@ -179,4 +198,5 @@ The `%25` represents hex code for a character that cannot be used directly
 - Currently the parser of nmbug (like that of notmuch restore) assumes
   that there are no spaces in message-ids.
 
-[nmbug]: http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/devel/nmbug/nmbug
+[archive]: https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/archive/notmuch-list.tar.xz
+[nmbug]: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/devel/nmbug/nmbug