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+[[!meta title="BONE and gnaw.el: tracking what matters"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2026 Bastien Guerry"]]
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+# BONE and gnaw.el: tracking what matters
+Bastien Guerry (he) - IRC: bzg, <https://bzg.fr>, <mailto:bzg@bzg.fr>
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+Most free software projects use three communication channels: one for
+general feedback, one for bug reports, and one for contributions.
+Projects that use patches instead of pull/merge requests (e.g. Emacs)
+can reduce this to two channels: a discussion list and a bug tracker.
+Some opinionated projects (e.g. Org mode) use only one channel: a
+mailing list for general discussions, bug reports and patches. This
+makes it easy for everyone to track everything. However, this requires
+a tool to help filter all the input. The Org mode tracker uses BONE
+for this filtering, and Org mode contributors can use gnaw.el as a
+BONE client.
+
+BONE (Backlog Of Notable Emails) is a bug tracker written in Clojure
+that watches a project's mailing list. An email whose subject starts
+with [BUG], [PATCH] or [FR] becomes a report. Replies update it with a
+small, fixed vocabulary: "Confirmed.", "Acked.", "Owned.", "Closed.",
+plus the usual review trailers like Reviewed-by:. Nobody creates an
+account, nobody fills a form, nobody leaves their mail client. The
+mailbox stays the single source of truth: the tracker database can be
+rebuilt from the archive at any time. BONE then exports the reports as
+static HTML, RSS, Org and, most importantly, plain reports.json files
+that anyone can fetch and reuse.
+
+gnaw.el is the Emacs client for BONE. M-x gnaw opens a report browser
+listing the bugs, patches and feature requests of the sources you
+follow, across projects. From that buffer you can search reports, read
+the underlying emails in Gnus, notmuch or mu4e, view and apply patches
+directly into a local git repository, open attachments, and organize
+your own work with local sticky and dismiss marks.
+
+The talk will:
+
+-   show BONE in action on a real mailing list, from the tagged email to
+    the exported reports;
+-   demo gnaw.el: browsing, searching, reading, applying a patch, all
+    from Emacs;
+-   discuss the pros and cons of using this tool for Org mode.
+
+The audience is anyone who maintains or contributes to a project
+through a mailing list, anyone who is tired of forge accounts, and
+anyone curious about what a tracker looks like when it is derived from
+the conversation instead of replacing it.
+
+Links:
+
+-   [BONE - Reports - Org mode ML](https://tracker.orgmode.org)
+-   BONE: <https://codeberg.org/bzg/bone>
+-   gnaw.el: <https://codeberg.org/bzg/gnaw.el>
+-   The essay behind the idea:
+    <https://bzg.fr/en/notes/the-issue-with-issue-trackers/>
+
+About the speaker:
+
+Bastien Guerry has been maintaining Org mode from 2011 until 2025.
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