From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Experimental Tag Sharing
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:45:06 -0300
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OK, here is my rough and ready attempt at tag sharing.  I figure we
can smooth out the rough edges if/when we agree on a set of tags and
preferably on an on-disk format.

How to play?

- - Apply all the patches in this thread (starting
  id:"1319383133-11006-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net")

- - to git master git clone git://pivot.cs.unb.ca/nmbug.git $HOME/.nmbug

- - put the script nmbug somewhere

# suck in the tags
$ nmbug restore

[ do some tagging ]

$ nmbug dump
$ cd $HOME/.nmbug && git add tags && git commit

now you have to get the changes into the "master" repo.  I think
hosting this on git.notmuchmail.org in a seperate repo will make
sense, but for now, if you want to participate in the experiment, send
me your public key (ideally in a gpg signed mail, but if not, oh well), 
and you can push to my repo at

    git@pivot.cs.unb.ca:pub/nmbug

Probably the most crucial thing is that we agree on some set of tags.
Here is the set of tags I am working with (output from 
     notmuch search --output=tags "*" | grep ^notmuch:: 
)

notmuch::bug   		     is a bug report
notmuch::feature	     provides a new feature
notmuch::fix		     fixes a bug
notmuch::obsolete	     replaced by some other patch
notmuch::patch		     
notmuch::portability	     improves portability
notmuch::pushed		     is pushed to master
notmuch::review		     is a review
notmuch::reviewed	     has been (well reviewed)
notmuch::test		     provides a new test/or improves testing

The prefix "notmuch::" is hardcoded into the script, but everything
else is easy to change with the usual notmuch operations.  Of course
we can change the prefix too. I decided on :: because it needed less
escaping.

On think I'm not sure about is how to handle ideas like "voting", and
"signing off" with tags. I suspect we can come up with some
conventions like "notmuch::review1", or
"notmuch::vote1".."notmuch::vote5". But maybe people have less kludgy
ideas.

Remember, perfect is the enemy of good ;)

David
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