Subject: bug#36560: Adding tags is not proof that anybody actually read the bug report

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 18:47:49 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
> > Also on Debian, the user doesn't have to check the web to find out why a
> > bug was closed. Here he just gets a message that it was closed.
>
> Sure:
>
> M-: (gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group 36560)
>
> :-)

Nifty!  Would it perhaps be useful to add that to
etc/admin/bug-triage (see attached patch)?

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas
From 7da39da58c9ecd2d8dff384dbbae0f01d5540e11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 18:44:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * admin/notes/bug-triage: New section "Tips and tricks".
 (Bug#36560)

---
 admin/notes/bug-triage | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/admin/notes/bug-triage b/admin/notes/bug-triage
index 2974eee179..c105f06c55 100644
--- a/admin/notes/bug-triage
+++ b/admin/notes/bug-triage
@@ -104,3 +104,21 @@ according to the communication flow.  Red bugs mean that nobody has
 answered, these bugs need primary attention.  Green bugs flag that
 there is a recent communication about, and orange bugs flag that the
 bug hasn't been touched for at least two weeks.
+
+* Tips and tricks
+
+** Show individual bug report in web browser.
+
+To see the bug report for Bug#123 in a web browser, visit the URL:
+
+   https://debbugs.gnu.org/123
+
+** Show individual bug report in Emacs.
+
+To display the bug report for Bug#123 in emacs:
+
+   (require 'gnus-group)  ; Make sure its loaded
+   (gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group 123)
+
+This is equivalent to displaying it using the debbugs package above,
+but only works for individual bug reports.
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