X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch-wiki;a=blobdiff_plain;f=nmbug.mdwn;h=44a1a20d2a44fca8ba1512852d67cbb71fe70d17;hp=5b66e468507131ed7c0e393742f4dcaeb5c86257;hb=a8af51204b33c532bdb0fefae2e9e31fec945a21;hpb=bdb4c3bd6c7be4fd1d83f6346c789061a5e92417

diff --git a/nmbug.mdwn b/nmbug.mdwn
index 5b66e46..44a1a20 100644
--- a/nmbug.mdwn
+++ b/nmbug.mdwn
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
+[[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
 # Experimental Tag Sharing / Pseudo-Bug-Tracking for/with notmuch
 
 ## Web View
 
-There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/status]].
+There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/status]].
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install and use notmuch version notmuch 0.9+63~gebd1adc or newer and
-   perl module `Pod::Usage` (packaged as `perl-doc` in debian).
+0. Make sure that the whole [notmuch@notmuchmail.org mailing list
+   archive][archive] is available in your email database.
 
-   The nmbug script is available in `contrib/nmbug`.
+1. Install and use nmbug from notmuch version **0.19** or newer, and
+   either Python 2.7 or anything from the 3.x line.
 
-2. The current tag repo can be obtained by:
+   The nmbug script is available in [devel/nmbug][nmbug].
 
-   `$ git clone --bare http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git $HOME/.nmbug`
+2. Make sure your `git version` is **1.7.4** or newer. 
 
-   Check that your git is recent enough by entering:
+3. Enter the following command to obtain the current tag repository:
 
-   `$ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug fetch`
-
-   If you get failures then you need to update your git (as well).
+   `$ nmbug clone http://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git`
 
 ## Using nmbug, simple example
 
@@ -63,16 +63,16 @@ There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/s
 
 For the moment, we are using a central repo, hosted at:
 
-    nmbug@nmbug.tethera.net:nmbug-tags
+    nmbug@nmbug.notmuchmail.org:nmbug-tags
 
 To get push access, send your public key (ideally in a gpg signed
 email) to David Bremner.  There is a convenience command:
 
     $ nmbug push
 
-But you will have to change your url with:
+But you will have to change your push URL with:
 
-    $ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug remote set-url origin nmbug@nmbug.tethera.net:nmbug-tags
+    $ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug remote set-url --push origin nmbug@nmbug.notmuchmail.org:nmbug-tags
 
 ## Tagging conventions
 
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ Initially any patch should be tagged:
 
     notmuch::patch
 
-Patches that are for discussion, rather than proposed for master should be tagged:
+Patches that are for discussion, rather than proposed for master
+should also be tagged:
 
     notmuch::wip                is "work in progress", posted for review or comment.
 
@@ -109,6 +110,13 @@ Sometimes the process stalls, and patches get tagged:
 
     notmuch::moreinfo           waiting for feedback from patch proposer
                                 or others
+    notmuch::stale              The patch no longer applies to master (or in
+                                rare cases, to release)
+
+Note that these tags typically apply to whole series of patches; it
+doesn't usually make sense to apply patches later in the series before
+earlier ones. So a patch may be tagged `moreinfo` or `stale` only
+because a predecessor patch is.
 
 ### Bug tracking tag
 
@@ -116,11 +124,14 @@ So far we are just tagging certain messages as bug reports, meaning
 things that "everyone" agrees should be fixed.
 
     notmuch::bug                is a bug report
+    notmuch::fixed              indicates that the bug is fixed in the
+                                master branch
 
 ### Optional tags
 
 These patches are more comments and suggestions.
 
+    notmuch::doc                is a documentation patch
     notmuch::emacs              is a patch/bug for the emacs UI
     notmuch::feature            provides a new feature
     notmuch::fix                fixes a bug
@@ -142,7 +153,13 @@ search in emacs):
 You might or might not want as many exclusions.  Another interesting
 search is:
 
-    tag:notmuch::reviewed and not tag:notmuch::pushed
+    tag:notmuch::patch and not tag:notmuch::needs-review and not \
+        tag:notmuch::pushed and not tag:notmuch::obsolete and not \
+            tag:notmuch::wontfix and not tag:notmuch::moreinfo and not \
+                tag:notmuch::stale and not tag:notmuch::wip
+
+See the [[status|http://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/status]] page for more
+example searches.
 
 ## Design notes
 
@@ -150,8 +167,8 @@ search is:
 
 The tags are stored in a bare-repo, which means they are not obviously
 visible. There is an `nmbug archive` command analogous to `git
-archive` Tags are represented as empty files in the tree; if you extra
-them, the tree looks something like:
+archive` Tags are represented as empty files in the tree; if you
+extract them, the tree looks something like:
 
     tags/878waiwi0f.wl%25james@hackervisions.org/
     tags/878waiwi0f.wl%25james@hackervisions.org/emacs
@@ -167,3 +184,6 @@ The `%25` represents hex code for a character that cannot be used directly
 
 - Currently the parser of nmbug (like that of notmuch restore) assumes
   that there are no spaces in message-ids.
+
+[archive]: https://notmuchmail.org/archives/notmuch.mbox
+[nmbug]: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/devel/nmbug/nmbug