Hi, A new debbuggtk package should be reaching mirrors about now. Also, for those of you who were waiting, the bts interface used by debbuggtk has now been restored so everything should work again. BugWatcher is a graphical tool for viewing and editing bug reports. Some of its features include: - Filtering of listings (e.g ATTN to find reports requiring attention; RC to find rc reports; DISPLAY to find all reports about DISPLAY) - Fast editing of bug reports. A convenient UI allows you to add comments, change tags and other control info. Tooltip reminders of tag and severity descriptions are given. A single click will select the recipients (no more multiple keystrokes). - Usual email interface - the tools generate emails to send to the bts - Queue for edits to control data of bugs. - Reports are stored in a Cache. - They are very fast to access, only need downloading if they change - You have no excuses for not responding to your bugs when you temporarily have no net access :) - Display of number of (All/RC/IN/MW) bugs in each watched listing. - Highlighting of unread/modified reports If you haven't tried bugwatcher yet, please do (package: debbuggtk). In my experience, it dramatically speeds up interaction with the bts. The last version announced to a mailing list was much earlier in development and unfortunately depended on non-free tools. debbuggtk no longer depends on such tools - it has worked flawlessly with free tools for many (unannounced) releases. Bug watcher is not perfect. The tools are still in development. Particular problems at the moment might include: - When bugs are updated, listing bug counts might not be updated immediately. - Bug comments may look ugly. We still parse the html from bugs.d.o. - User interface bugs - The release includes rewrites of most of the ui with glade - there are likely to be many bugs. - System Info generation is slow and without progress reports. At the moment, we just ask reportbug to provide the information. - BugReporter is ugly and has usability issues - It is using an unofficial plain text interface to the bts If you find others, please report them. If you are interested in helping with debbuggtk, please do get in contact with me. (Note that alioth cvs is not currently used - latest sources are available from the packages. Alioth will be used for cvs if we get more developers) -- .''`. Mark Howard : :' : `. `' http://www.tildemh.com `- mh@debian.org | mh@tildemh.com | mh344@cam.ac.uk
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