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+Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+
+> the basic idea is to take a look at all public branches (for exaple
+> all on lp/bitbucket/github) in order to tell the user of a
+> webinterface that bug foo is fixed in branch xyz, and if its merged to
+> the main branch
+
+I don't understand. The state of the bug in the main branch is right
+there in the main branch; if it's not fixed there, it's not fixed there.
+If it's merged in from a different branch, the bug state follows all the
+other changes when they come in.
+
+Can you give an example of what would be done differently?
+
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+Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:34:08 +1000
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+
+From: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>
+
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+In-reply-to: 88d1f2c2-e1af-4f0d-9390-e3c89ae4f7d7
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+On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> 1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in order
+> to get the complete bug state
+
+Keeping the bug data with the source helps synchronize bug state and
+source code.  Bug state in branch A may not apply to branch B.  Some
+people like to weaken this source-bug linkage by keeping their bugs in
+a branch all by themselves (ditz [http://ditz.rubyforge.org/]
+currently supports this workflow).  It sounds like you want to move
+from "bugs with code" to "bugs and code in separate branches".  We
+don't have an easy way to do that in BE at the moment, since
+version-control systems like Git have a single working branch at a
+time (I think :p).  What VCS are you using as a backend?
+
+> 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+
+  be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+  wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+to grab it.
+
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+Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:50:30 -0400
+
+
+From: '"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>'
+
+
+In-reply-to: 88d1f2c2-e1af-4f0d-9390-e3c89ae4f7d7
+
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+Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+
+> 1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in
+> order to get the complete bug state
+
+The bug state is as complete as the source code state. It's exactly as
+aggregated as the rest of the source code; the “complete bug state”
+would be the integration branch where you merge all the feature branches
+and bug-fix branches together.
+
+If instead you want bugs to *not* be tightly linked with the rest of the
+source code state, it seems you don't want a distributed bug tracker
+like Bugs Everywhere.
+
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+Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:31:34 +1000
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+From: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>
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+On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:05:34AM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 19:55 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:25 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > > > > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> > > > > > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+> > > > > > 
+> > > > > >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+> > > > > > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+> > > > > >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+> > > > > > to grab it.
+> > > > >
+> > > > > so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed
+> > > > > and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?
+> > > > 
+> > > > I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
+> > > > homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
+> > > > just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
+> > > > whatever encoding you've configured.
+> > >
+> > > some kind of common upload target for a single project in order to have
+> > > more reliable sources of stuff thats related to bugs but doesnt fit into
+> > > the normal repository
+> > 
+> > Sorry, I'm still having trouble with "doesn't fit into the normal
+> > repository".  It's going to be large wherever you keep it.  You
+> > worried about multiple branches all having these big tarballs in them
+> > and want a "lightweight" checkout without all the big
+> > tarballs/whatever?  I still think having some sort of "resources"
+> > directory on an http server somewhere that you link to from comments
+> > is the best plan.  If you use the
+> >   be show --xml ID | be-xml-to-mbox | catmutt
+> > approach, you can even write your comments in text/html and get
+> > clickable links ;).  A "push big file to remote and commit comment
+> > linking to it" script would be pretty simple and keep everything
+> > consistent.
+>
+> thats probably what i want to do
+
+#!/bin/bash
+REMOTE_DIR="you@webhost:./public_html/bigfiles"
+REMOTE_LINK="http://www.webhost.com/bigfiles"
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
+   echo "usage: $0 ID BIGFILE"
+   exit 1
+fi
+ID="$1"
+BIGFILE="$2"
+be comment "$ID" "Large file stored at ${REMOTE_LINK}/${BIGFILE}" && scp "$BIGFILE" "${REMOTE_DIR}"
+
+> > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> > > > > Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> > > > > 
+> > > > > > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+> > > > > 
+> > > > > How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
+> > > > > VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+> > > > 
+> > > > He could just make a list of branches he likes.
+> > > > 
+> > > > Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
+> > > > fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
+> > > > static multi-repo summary?
+> > >
+> > > on the fly access
+> > 
+> > Then listing bugs in a remote repo will either involve httping tons of
+> > tiny values files for each bug (slow?) or running some hypothetical
+> > BE-server locally for each repo speaking some BE-specific protocol
+> > (complicated?).  And how would you handle e.g. headless git repos,
+> > where nothing's even checked out?
+> > 
+> > You could always run the cron job every 15 minutes, and rely on
+> > whatever VCS you're using having some intelligent protocol/procedure
+> > to keep bandwidth down ;).  If you need faster / more-efficient
+> > updates, you'll probably need to throw out polling altogether and
+> > setup all involved repos with a "push to central-repo on commit" hook
+> > or some such.
+>
+> its intended to run on the place where i publish the repositories anyway
+
+Oh, you mean all the repos you want to cover are all _already_ on the
+same host?
+
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+Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:47:15 -0400
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+From: '"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>'
+
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+In-reply-to: 6dcc910a-ce15-4eeb-b49b-4747719748ed
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+On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:25:07AM -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> The easiest implementation I can think of would be to keep local
+> branches (on whatever computer is hosting your web interface)
+> following your favorite repos.
+>   proxectX/
+>   |-- repoA
+>   |-- repoB
+>   `-- repoC
+> You'd pull upstream changes with a cron job.
+> Listing bugs would be something along the lines of
+>   projectX$ for repo in *
+>             do
+>               pushd $repo
+>               be list
+>               popd
+>             done | sort | uniq
+> ...
+
+I've reworked option handling for be, so my branch now supports
+  projectX$ for repo in *
+            do
+              be --dir $repo list
+            done | sort | uniq
+etc.  This also makes it easy to use your uninstalled development
+version of be on any bug directory on your local machine.
+
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+Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:57:34 -0400
+
+
+From: '"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>'
+
+
+In-reply-to: bd98f525-95ec-446a-84e8-34c7d6fa5b40
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+On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:25 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> > > > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+> > > > 
+> > > >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+> > > > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+> > > >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+> > > > to grab it.
+> > >
+> > > so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed
+> > > and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?
+> > 
+> > I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
+> > homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
+> > just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
+> > whatever encoding you've configured.
+>
+> some kind of common upload target for a single project in order to have
+> more reliable sources of stuff thats related to bugs but doesnt fit into
+> the normal repository
+
+Sorry, I'm still having trouble with "doesn't fit into the normal
+repository".  It's going to be large wherever you keep it.  You
+worried about multiple branches all having these big tarballs in them
+and want a "lightweight" checkout without all the big
+tarballs/whatever?  I still think having some sort of "resources"
+directory on an http server somewhere that you link to from comments
+is the best plan.  If you use the
+  be show --xml ID | be-xml-to-mbox | catmutt
+approach, you can even write your comments in text/html and get
+clickable links ;).  A "push big file to remote and commit comment
+linking to it" script would be pretty simple and keep everything
+consistent.
+
+> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> > > Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> > > 
+> > > > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+> > > 
+> > > How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
+> > > VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+> > 
+> > He could just make a list of branches he likes.
+> > 
+> > Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
+> > fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
+> > static multi-repo summary?
+>
+> on the fly access
+
+Then listing bugs in a remote repo will either involve httping tons of
+tiny values files for each bug (slow?) or running some hypothetical
+BE-server locally for each repo speaking some BE-specific protocol
+(complicated?).  And how would you handle e.g. headless git repos,
+where nothing's even checked out?
+
+You could always run the cron job every 15 minutes, and rely on
+whatever VCS you're using having some intelligent protocol/procedure
+to keep bandwidth down ;).  If you need faster / more-efficient
+updates, you'll probably need to throw out polling altogether and
+setup all involved repos with a "push to central-repo on commit" hook
+or some such.
+
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+Content-type: text/plain
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+Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:55:02 -0400
+
+
+From: '"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>'
+
+
+In-reply-to: 8ffc90d7-0be7-4b00-88e6-9ae1b65f7957
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+On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 19:55 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:25 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > > > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> > > > > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+> > > > > 
+> > > > >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+> > > > > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+> > > > >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+> > > > > to grab it.
+> > > >
+> > > > so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed
+> > > > and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?
+> > > 
+> > > I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
+> > > homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
+> > > just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
+> > > whatever encoding you've configured.
+> >
+> > some kind of common upload target for a single project in order to have
+> > more reliable sources of stuff thats related to bugs but doesnt fit into
+> > the normal repository
+> 
+> Sorry, I'm still having trouble with "doesn't fit into the normal
+> repository".  It's going to be large wherever you keep it.  You
+> worried about multiple branches all having these big tarballs in them
+> and want a "lightweight" checkout without all the big
+> tarballs/whatever?  I still think having some sort of "resources"
+> directory on an http server somewhere that you link to from comments
+> is the best plan.  If you use the
+>   be show --xml ID | be-xml-to-mbox | catmutt
+> approach, you can even write your comments in text/html and get
+> clickable links ;).  A "push big file to remote and commit comment
+> linking to it" script would be pretty simple and keep everything
+> consistent.
+thats probably what i want to do
+
+> 
+> > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> > > > Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> > > > 
+> > > > > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+> > > > 
+> > > > How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
+> > > > VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+> > > 
+> > > He could just make a list of branches he likes.
+> > > 
+> > > Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
+> > > fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
+> > > static multi-repo summary?
+> >
+> > on the fly access
+> 
+> Then listing bugs in a remote repo will either involve httping tons of
+> tiny values files for each bug (slow?) or running some hypothetical
+> BE-server locally for each repo speaking some BE-specific protocol
+> (complicated?).  And how would you handle e.g. headless git repos,
+> where nothing's even checked out?
+> 
+> You could always run the cron job every 15 minutes, and rely on
+> whatever VCS you're using having some intelligent protocol/procedure
+> to keep bandwidth down ;).  If you need faster / more-efficient
+> updates, you'll probably need to throw out polling altogether and
+> setup all involved repos with a "push to central-repo on commit" hook
+> or some such.
+its intended to run on the place where i publish the repositories anyway
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+Alt-id: <1247468734.7189.1.camel@localhost>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:05:34 +0200
+
+
+From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de>
+
+
+In-reply-to: 4d192c6c-a4a8-4844-b083-2dd5926bd2d9
+
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+Hi,
+
+1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in order
+to get the complete bug state
+
+2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+
+Regards Ronny
+
+
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+Be-devel mailing list
+Be-devel@bugseverywhere.org
+http://void.printf.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/be-devel
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+Alt-id: <1247313294.7701.60.camel@localhost>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:54:54 +0200
+
+
+From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de>
+
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+On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:25 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > > 1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in order
+> > > > to get the complete bug state
+> > > 
+> > > Keeping the bug data with the source helps synchronize bug state and
+> > > source code.  Bug state in branch A may not apply to branch B.  Some
+> > > people like to weaken this source-bug linkage by keeping their bugs in
+> > > a branch all by themselves (ditz [http://ditz.rubyforge.org/]
+> > > currently supports this workflow).  It sounds like you want to move
+> > > from "bugs with code" to "bugs and code in separate branches".  We
+> > > don't have an easy way to do that in BE at the moment, since
+> > > version-control systems like Git have a single working branch at a
+> > > time (I think :p).  What VCS are you using as a backend?
+> >
+> > the basic idea is to take a look at all public branches (for exaple all
+> > on lp/bitbucket/github) in order to tell the user of a webinterface that
+> > bug foo is fixed in branch xyz, and if its merged to the main branch
+> 
+> Hmm.  
+> 
+> > > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> > > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+> > > 
+> > >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+> > > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+> > >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+> > > to grab it.
+> > so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed
+> 
+> Well, it's going to be managed by somebody ;).  So far I'm not
+> convinced enough for the manager to be me, so I'm suggesting it be you
+> :p.
+> 
+> > and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?
+> 
+> I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
+> homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
+> just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
+> whatever encoding you've configured.
+some kind of common upload target for a single project in order to have
+more reliable sources of stuff thats related to bugs but doesnt fit into
+the normal repository
+
+
+> 
+> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> > Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> > 
+> > > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+> > 
+> > How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
+> > VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+> 
+> He could just make a list of branches he likes.
+> 
+> Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
+> fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
+> static multi-repo summary?
+on the fly access
+
+> 
+> The easiest implementation I can think of would be to keep local
+> branches (on whatever computer is hosting your web interface)
+> following your favorite repos.
+>   proxectX/
+>   |-- repoA
+>   |-- repoB
+>   `-- repoC
+> You'd pull upstream changes with a cron job.
+> Listing bugs would be something along the lines of
+>   projectX$ for repo in *
+>             do
+>               pushd $repo
+>               be list
+> 	      popd
+>             done | sort | uniq
+> Then to show bug status you would have something like
+>   projectX$ for repo in *
+>             do
+>               echo $repo
+>               pushd $repo
+>               be show ${BUGID}
+>               popd
+>             done
+> For a web frontend, you'd want to translate that to python/libbe.
+> 
+
+yes, the idea is to get a web fontend for multiple branches 
+and maybe a local gtk fontend for local multi-branch setups
+
+for some of my projects i have n local and m remote repos, and merging
+is not always intended soonish
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+Alt-id: <1247433610.14803.3.camel@localhost>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:20:10 +0200
+
+
+From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de>
+
+
+In-reply-to: bd98f525-95ec-446a-84e8-34c7d6fa5b40
+
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+On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > > 1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in order
+> > > to get the complete bug state
+> > 
+> > Keeping the bug data with the source helps synchronize bug state and
+> > source code.  Bug state in branch A may not apply to branch B.  Some
+> > people like to weaken this source-bug linkage by keeping their bugs in
+> > a branch all by themselves (ditz [http://ditz.rubyforge.org/]
+> > currently supports this workflow).  It sounds like you want to move
+> > from "bugs with code" to "bugs and code in separate branches".  We
+> > don't have an easy way to do that in BE at the moment, since
+> > version-control systems like Git have a single working branch at a
+> > time (I think :p).  What VCS are you using as a backend?
+>
+> the basic idea is to take a look at all public branches (for exaple all
+> on lp/bitbucket/github) in order to tell the user of a webinterface that
+> bug foo is fixed in branch xyz, and if its merged to the main branch
+
+Hmm.  
+
+> > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+> > 
+> >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+> > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+> >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+> > to grab it.
+> so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed
+
+Well, it's going to be managed by somebody ;).  So far I'm not
+convinced enough for the manager to be me, so I'm suggesting it be you
+:p.
+
+> and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?
+
+I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
+homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
+just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
+whatever encoding you've configured.
+
+On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> 
+> > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+> 
+> How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
+> VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+
+He could just make a list of branches he likes.
+
+Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
+fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
+static multi-repo summary?
+
+The easiest implementation I can think of would be to keep local
+branches (on whatever computer is hosting your web interface)
+following your favorite repos.
+  proxectX/
+  |-- repoA
+  |-- repoB
+  `-- repoC
+You'd pull upstream changes with a cron job.
+Listing bugs would be something along the lines of
+  projectX$ for repo in *
+            do
+              pushd $repo
+              be list
+	      popd
+            done | sort | uniq
+Then to show bug status you would have something like
+  projectX$ for repo in *
+            do
+              echo $repo
+              pushd $repo
+              be show ${BUGID}
+              popd
+            done
+For a web frontend, you'd want to translate that to python/libbe.
+
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+Alt-id: <20090711152507.GA18461@mjolnir.home.net>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:25:07 -0400
+
+
+From: '"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>'
+
+
+In-reply-to: e520239c-8d69-4ff6-b1bd-0c2f74366200
+
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+On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> 
+> > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+> 
+> What is your definition of ???all branches???? When I'm working with
+> distributed VCS, I create branches wherever I feel like, and the VCS
+> tool doesn't have some central registry of branches to keep up to date.
+> 
+> How is a tool to determine the set of ???all branches???? The distributed
+> VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+
+In the first main Ronny spoke about "public" branches. To me it means that
+if a branch is public, he should like to have a status of that branch.
+
+We all agree (probably ;-) ) that tha main branch is the "right" branch, but
+as I see it, Ronny's question has some logic.
+I'd like to know that a certain bug is fixed in a certain branch, also if it
+is still not merged in the main branch, for various reason (ie I am interested
+in the solution since the bug stop my work) 
+
+Imagine it like a rss feed aggregator: in one place there are all the bugs of
+all the branches that the developers make avaible to the public with 
+a repository. This can make easier the life to who want to try a something
+since he know what branch he must check out, instead of checking all the 
+branch he can find to test if he get what is looking for.
+
+Unluckyly I have no idea how to solve it. :-(
+
+bye
+Gianluca
+ 
+
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+Alt-id: <20090713085859.GA21800@grys.it>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:58:59 +0200
+
+
+From: Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
+
+
+In-reply-to: e520239c-8d69-4ff6-b1bd-0c2f74366200
+
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+On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 23:34 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> 
+> > the basic idea is to take a look at all public branches (for exaple
+> > all on lp/bitbucket/github) in order to tell the user of a
+> > webinterface that bug foo is fixed in branch xyz, and if its merged to
+> > the main branch
+> 
+> I don't understand. The state of the bug in the main branch is right
+> there in the main branch; if it's not fixed there, it's not fixed there.
+> If it's merged in from a different branch, the bug state follows all the
+> other changes when they come in.
+> 
+> Can you give an example of what would be done differently?
+> 
+i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+
+for example
+
+i got bug
+its fixed in the branch "something"
+its not fixed/merged to "main"
+
+now something like a website should tell me, this bug has been fixed in
+branch xyz and the fix is not yet merged into main
+
+
+
+
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+Be-devel@bugseverywhere.org
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+Alt-id: <1247320857.7701.67.camel@localhost>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:00:57 +0200
+
+
+From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de>
+
+
+In-reply-to: 0f60a148-7024-44bd-bbed-377cbece9d1b
+
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+On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
+> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
+> > 1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in order
+> > to get the complete bug state
+> 
+> Keeping the bug data with the source helps synchronize bug state and
+> source code.  Bug state in branch A may not apply to branch B.  Some
+> people like to weaken this source-bug linkage by keeping their bugs in
+> a branch all by themselves (ditz [http://ditz.rubyforge.org/]
+> currently supports this workflow).  It sounds like you want to move
+> from "bugs with code" to "bugs and code in separate branches".  We
+> don't have an easy way to do that in BE at the moment, since
+> version-control systems like Git have a single working branch at a
+> time (I think :p).  What VCS are you using as a backend?
+the basic idea is to take a look at all public branches (for exaple all
+on lp/bitbucket/github) in order to tell the user of a webinterface that
+bug foo is fixed in branch xyz, and if its merged to the main branch
+> 
+> > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
+> > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
+> 
+>   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
+> Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
+>   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
+> to grab it.
+so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed and have have
+heterogenous sources of extended data?
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+Alt-id: <1247317985.7701.63.camel@localhost>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
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+
+Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:13:05 +0200
+
+
+From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de>
+
+
+In-reply-to: 13012b22-2d02-444c-87c0-8cf0f17137ae
+
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+Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+
+> i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
+
+What is your definition of “all branches”? When I'm working with
+distributed VCS, I create branches wherever I feel like, and the VCS
+tool doesn't have some central registry of branches to keep up to date.
+
+How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
+VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
+
+-- 
+ \         “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, |
+  `\    Brain, but I find scratching just makes it worse.” —_Pinky and |
+_o__)                                                       The Brain_ |
+Ben Finney
+
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+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
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+
+Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:57:35 +1000
+
+
+From: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>
+
+
+In-reply-to: 88d1f2c2-e1af-4f0d-9390-e3c89ae4f7d7
+
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+On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:31:34PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
+> Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
+> 
+> > 1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in
+> > order to get the complete bug state
+> 
+> The bug state is as complete as the source code state. It's exactly as
+> aggregated as the rest of the source code; the ???complete bug state???
+> would be the integration branch where you merge all the feature branches
+> and bug-fix branches together.
+> 
+> If instead you want bugs to *not* be tightly linked with the rest of the
+> source code state, it seems you don't want a distributed bug tracker
+> like Bugs Everywhere.
+
+"the complete bug state" probably means that he want to know (and in some way
+to publish it) that the bug "xyz" is fixed and merged in main while bug "abc"
+is fixed but only in branch "123" and bug "def" is still open in branch "456"
+
+bye
+Gianluca
+
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+Alt-id: <20090713090341.GB21800@grys.it>
+
+
+Content-type: text/plain
+
+
+Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:03:41 +0200
+
+
+From: Gianluca Montecchi <gian@grys.it>
+
+
+In-reply-to: 1f9f60de-ba37-42bc-a1c0-dc062ef255e1
+