* bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number
@ 2008-06-11 20:23 Joe Wells
2008-06-11 21:44 ` Jason Rumney
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Joe Wells @ 2008-06-11 20:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
It is no longer possible to send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it
being assigned a bug number.
It appears that if e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs contains “bug#XYZ” in the
subject, it is added to the bug log for bug number XYZ, while
otherwise a fresh bug number is allocated and the e-mail is added to
the bug log for the new bug report.
It appears that bug-gnu-emacs (a.k.a. the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup) has
been taken over completely by the bug tracking system. The
bug-gnu-emacs mailing list can no longer be used for meta-level
discussions about bug handling.
Is this a feature or a bug?
Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an
ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)?
I don't think the new way is necessarily bad, but it seems to have
happened without much community discussion.
Please discuss this.
--
Joe
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* bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number
2008-06-11 20:23 bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number Joe Wells
@ 2008-06-11 21:44 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-11 23:29 ` Joe Wells
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jason Rumney @ 2008-06-11 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joe Wells, 389; +Cc: bug-gnu-emacs
Joe Wells wrote:
> Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an
> ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)?
>
It should only be used for discussion of bugs. That has always been its
purpose.
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* bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number
2008-06-11 21:44 ` Jason Rumney
@ 2008-06-11 23:29 ` Joe Wells
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Joe Wells @ 2008-06-11 23:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Rumney; +Cc: bug-gnu-emacs, 389
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> Joe Wells wrote:
>> Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an
>> ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)?
>
> It should only be used for discussion of bugs. That has always been
> its purpose.
What about discussion about the discussion of bugs (meta-level
discussion, like this one)? Where does that go?
--
Joe
--
Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity
registered under charity number SC000278.
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