nmbug: replace markdown copy of report generator with offsite link.

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 # 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||http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=notmuch-scripts.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/nmbug-status.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 can be obtained by
 
-    git clone --bare git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/nmbug.git $HOME/.nmbug
+      git clone --bare git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/nmbug.git $HOME/.nmbug
+
+    Check that your git is recent enough by entering
+
+      git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug fetch
+
+    If you get failures then you need to update your git (as well).
 
 ## Using nmbug, simple example
 
@@ -65,7 +75,7 @@
        
    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
 
@@ -73,6 +83,7 @@
     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
@@ -80,7 +91,23 @@
     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.