Re: Getting full bug database dump?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The package is unfinished. I lost interested when I found out, that the
>> SOAP interface of debbugs does not support sorting (which is
>> inconvenient for a larger number of bugs returned).
>> However, it might be worth to continue the work?

> Hmm.  I can see how it would be useful, but if it would still be
> one-way, I'm not it would be worth it... If it integrated with
> message-mode, to make it two-way, that would be something.

Clearly, we'd want to make it bodirectional.  Not just via message-mode,
but also by extending the SOAP interface so we can send commands (the
advantage being, as you pointed out, that we can get "immediate"
confirmation that the command was accepted).


        Stefan