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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>, 15784@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15784: 24.3.50; cc-mode bug reporting
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:28:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131106202839.GA4404@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jsvc09j9cn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Hello, Glenn.

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 07:31:36PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> >> It sends to bug-cc-mode@gnu.org.  It might make sense to change this to
> >> send to the gnu debbugs list instead, with an appropriate cc-mode tag.

> > Right at the moment, I don't think this would be a good idea.  CC Mode is
> > also upstream from XEmacs, and bug reports come from that quarter, too.
> > It is convenient to be able to filter a mailbox for mails addressed to
> > *cc-mode*.  Mail to bug-gnu-emacs is much easier to lose in the sheer
> > volume of postings.

> I think you may have misunderstood the suggestion.

That may be the case.

> If you change c-submit-bug-report to send mail to
> submit@debbugs.gnu.org, with an "X-Debbugs-Package: cc-mode" header,
> then all those reports will still end up on the bug-cc-mode list, not
> the bug-gnu-emacs list (ie, submit@debbugs will act like an alias for
> bug-cc-mode). But they will get entered into the tracker and get bug
> numbers. So this change would actually make it _less_ easier to lose
> cc-mode bugs.

The header "X-Debbugs-Package:" isn't mentioned in
.../admin/notes/bugtracker.  Can you point me at any documentation for
it?

> This is what Gnus does, for example, and they have the same XEmacs
> issues as you do. It seems to be working fine for them.

OK.  This would involve amending `reporter-submit-bug-report'.  I'll look
at this.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-01 16:01 bug#15784: 24.3.50; cc-mode bug reporting Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-11-03 21:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-11-04  0:31   ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-06 20:28     ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2013-11-06 20:52       ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-10 11:10       ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-11-10 18:43         ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-30  2:59           ` Glenn Morris
2015-05-27  6:31             ` Glenn Morris

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