Re: delay archive for "important" bugs

[Michael Albinus]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

>    > The bug tracker moves a bug to "archive" state after a month
>    > (according to the blurb on the homepage).
>
>    That happens only for closed bugs.
>
> Really?  Earlier today, 15344 was not "closed" AFAICT but anyway, i had
> to "unarchive" it to be able to continue its thread (via bug-gnu-emacs).
> (A previous mail went to /dev/null.)

Hmm. On "Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:19:04 -0400", this bug was confirmed by
Glenn (see message #22). Maybe this triggers also archiving after 4
weeks, dunno.

>    > Is it possible to customize this for Emacs to delay the move (to say,
>    > three months) for "important" bugs?
>
>    Why?
>
> If a bug is "important", i think it should be visible longer on the
> default "browse" link, reproduced here:

Sure.

> Hmm, after playing a bit, i think the timeout value has nothing to do w/
> whether or not the bug shows up on the default page, but rather the
> ‘max-bugs’ parameter, plus the particular mix of current bugs...

Don't understand. What do you mean with 'max-bugs'? The number of bugs
presented when searching?

>    You could always access the archived bugs as well: [debbugs-gnu]
>
> Cool.  I like debbugs-org, too.

Thanks. There are some new patches in the git repo which allow to save
and reuse the result of debbugs-org in a file xxx.org. This was inspired
by a patch from Sebastien.

I haven't increased the debbugs version yet (publishing to the public
ELPA visibility), waiting for comments on usefulness. Maybe you give it
a try ...

Best regards, Michael.