Re: Supporting property modification in message body

Ralf Schlatterbeck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 08:07:32PM -0500, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> 
> What I am proposing is having in body property manipulation.  The
> format I am looking at is a block form of the subject line syntax.  If
> the message between the = lines looks like:
> 
> =================
> [ 
> nosy=-richard
> priority=bug
> title=This is a replacement title for this message as displayed in the issue
> timelog-1:duration= 3:20
> timelog-2= 0:03
> ]
> 
> here is the body of a new message
> 
> ================
> 
> the following things will happen when processed:
> 
>   1) any properties set in the subject line are processed
>   2) the nosy, priority and title properties are set/modified
>      according to the values in the message
>   3) two new timelog objects with durations of 3 hours and 2 minutes
>      and 3 minutes will be created and linked to the issue.

I like this.
Maybe the magic section should be put at the end of the mail, similar to
the changelog that roundup puts at the end of messages it sends out?

This probably should allow to edit things other than issues (e.g.
queries), something that doesn't have messages -- in that case the
message body would be empty...

Ralf
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